laststandonzombieisland

(Hattip Hillbilly Blues Revue)
“In a few moments another Federal soldier came to me from the brush and wanted to know where our hospital was. He had his hand on his breast, and I asked him where he was wounded. He said he was shot in the breast and the ball had gone through his lungs, and that he had to keep his hand over the bullet hole so that he could get his breath. When he removed his hand I could hear the breath puffing through the wound. I directed him to the field hospital, but never knew whether he got well or not.” —John O. Casler, Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade