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Civil War Artillery
First Regiment Light Artillery
Bachman says it was a happy miss for him, for if his revolver had gone off the colonel would most certainly have fallen, which would have at once brought a volley upon him and he would have been numbered among the dead of Chickamauga.
The strong attachment of the men to this battery and all that belonged to it was most forcibly illustrated on this occasion by John W. Streeter, afterwards a lieutenant, now a physician in Chicago. After the retired gun was safely out of shot range he noticed that the sponge bucket, in the hurry to get from under the rebel fire had been forgotten; he at once returned again to the field, exposed to the enemy's fire, and brought it safely back to his gun.
Light Artillery
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