Chapter 24 BEFORE THE GREAT BATTLE

"And so your follies fight against yourself.

Fear, and be slain; no worse can come; to fight--

And fight and die, is death destroying death;

Where fearing dying, pays death servile breath."

--SHAKESPEARE.

On June 7,1862, I reported for duty to Captain Haskell. Dr. Frost had offered to send me over, but I preferred to go alone, and, a