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Husband JACK, however, was almost lost in thefierce fighting that raged to the north. One day he waswounded; as he lay there unable to withdraw, a bluecoatcame by and seeing him alive bayonetted himover the ear. After regaining consciousness he wasable to crawl back to where others, all wounded, werebeing loaded on flatcars of an evacuation train. Thewithdrawing train wasn't able to go far though beforeit became necessary to abandon it. By this time it waseach man for himself; and no sooner had JACK startedthe third leg of his flight than he realized that hecould go no farther. The tattered, grey - clad legs passinghim dropped from a throng to a trickle. Then a pairstood before him; what color were they? Dimly JACKcould distinguish that they were grey and not blue andthat the man was an officer. JACK said later that thethought immediately raced through his mind that thisperson would offer no help to a mere corporal. But hedid . . . and years later in the twilight of Mr. Dowling'slife there was only the deep scar of a bayonet over theold man's ear to show for the incident.

Husband JACK, however, was almost lost in thefierce fighting that raged to the north. One day he waswounded; as he lay there unable to withdraw, a bluecoatcame by and seeing him alive bayonetted himover the ear. After regaining consciousness he wasable to crawl back to where others, all wounded, werebeing loaded on flatcars of an evacuation train. Thewithdrawing train wasn't able to go far though beforeit became necessary to abandon it. By this time it waseach man for himself; and no sooner had JACK startedthe third leg of his flight than he realized that hecould go no farther. The tattered, grey - clad legs passinghim dropped from a throng to a trickle. Then a pairstood before him; what color were they? Dimly JACKcould distinguish that they were grey and not blue andthat the man was an officer. JACK said later that thethought immediately raced through his mind that thisperson would offer no help to a mere corporal. But hedid . . . and years later in the twilight of Mr. Dowling'slife there was only the deep scar of a bayonet over theold man's ear to show for the incident.

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