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He was wounded in the neck on the second day of Gettysburg and received a brevet promotion to colonel in the regular army for his service.
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Out in front of our walls the grass was covered with dead and dying men, war shields, lances, blankets and wounded and dead horses.
The war captain had been badly wounded and was fighting to hold his seat.
When it was over, eight of his company were still alive and all eight were wounded.
Two of our men were killed, a third was wounded.
'' and others concerning camp friends who resided in her suburban neighborhood,, and news of her commencing again her piano lessons, her private school, a visit to Boston to see her grandparents and an uncle who was a surgeon returned on furlough, wounded, from the war in Europe.
The injured German veteran was a former miner, twenty-four years old, who had been wounded by shrapnel in the back of the head.
He was wounded, but fought on.
Now the Bascom was mortally wounded.
The order to abandon ship was given, but cries of pain could be heard from the wounded below decks.
One of the more seriously wounded was Lieutenant Carroll, the young officer bucking for the Regular Army.
But when a board of inquiry was called to look into the charges of cowardice made against him, the men who had seen Reno leave the battlefield and the officer who had heard Reno suggest that the wounded be left to be tortured by the Sioux, refused to say a harsh word against him.
" I was giving water to the wounded because I saw your face in all of them ," replied Bhai Kanhaiya.
Gen. Felix Huston, challenging each other for the command of the Texas Army ; Johnston refused to fire on Huston and lost the position after he was wounded in the pelvis.
At about 2: 30 p. m., while leading one of those charges against a Union camp near the " Peach Orchard ", he was wounded, taking a bullet behind his right knee.
He apparently did not think the wound was serious at the time, and so he sent his personal physician to attend to some wounded captured Union soldiers instead.
) His men were routed when they encountered Maj. Gen. James Longstreet's corps, but by the following day, August 30, he took command of the division when Hatch was wounded, and he led his men to cover the retreat of the Union Army.
Doubleday again led the division, now assigned to the I Corps of the Army of the Potomac, after South Mountain, where Hatch was wounded again.
" He was wounded when an artillery shell exploded near his horse, throwing him to the ground in a violent fall.
The first Sheriff, Mr Samuel Smart, was wounded during the robbery, and on 2 May 1838 one of the offenders, Michael Magee, became the first person to be hanged in South Australia.
During this battle Ahab disguised himself, but was mortally wounded by an unaimed arrow ( ch.
He took the field himself, and performed many heroic deeds until he was wounded and forced to withdraw to his tent.
On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, who conspired to coordinate assassinations of others, including Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant and Secretary of State William H. Seward that same night.
William Hunter was appointed acting Secretary of State for the wounded Seward.
Ares was one of the Twelve Olympians in the archaic tradition represented by the Iliad and Odyssey, but Zeus expresses a recurring Greek revulsion toward the god when Ares returns wounded and complaining from the battlefield at Troy:
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The silence oppressed him, made him bend low over the horse's neck as if to hide from a wind that had begun to blow far away and was twisting slowly through the darkness in its slow search.
His mouth was open, his neck corded with the strain of his screams.
There was raw fury in his eyes, and the veins of his neck were swollen.
Even as she was telling me about it I became aware of a give-away flush that suffused her neck and moved upwards to her cheeks, and subconsciously I realized that when she entered the store she did not switch on the lights.
A phony blonde hanging onto a bygone youth and beauty, but irreparably stringy in the neck, she was already working on her second gin and tonic, though it was not yet ten A.M.
She munched little ginger cakes called mulatto's belly and kept her green, somewhat hypnotic eyes fixed on a light-colored male who was prancing wildly with a 5-foot king snake wrapped around his bronze neck.
The form was swathed in an army blanket, much patched, fastened at the neck with a cord.
It was just me and Eileen getting drunk together like we used to in the old days, and me staring at her across the table crazy to get my hands on her partly because I wanted to wring her neck because she was so ornery but mostly because she was so wonderful to touch.
The covers slid down his skinny neck so I saw his head, fuzzed like a dandelion gone to seed, but his face was turned to the wall -- there was the pale shadow of his nose on the plaster -- and I thought, Well you don't look much like a pig-drunk bully now.
The skin on his neck was tight.
It all seemed -- if one could have peeked in at him through one of his windows -- as though this broken-nosed man with the muscular arms and wrestler's neck was merely the caretaker trying his hand at the boss's work.
This might be applied to the top of the nose or the back of the neck, pressed on the upper lip, or inserted into the nostril ( cotton was usually used in this last ).
A `` lineback '' was an animal with a stripe of different color from the rest of its body runnin' down its back, while a `` lobo stripe '' was the white, yeller, or brown stripe runnin' down the back, from neck to tail, a characteristic of many Spanish cattle.
She had changed into a cocktail dress, and the whole evening should have been before her, but already she was beginning to get a tight feeling at the back of her neck.
Her name was Sabella, and the strip of seaweed around her neck was an emerald necklace the King gave her as a token of his undying love.
The massive skull of Albertosaurus, perched on a short, S-shaped neck, was approximately 1 metre ( 3. 3 ft ) long in the largest adults.
The 44-year old king was found dead on the shore the following morning with a broken neck.
* The constellation Pegasus, who was born from the stump of Medusa's neck, after Perseus had decapitated her
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