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From: "DonLinda" <>
Subject: [NY-MILITARY] September 16-1862: Capt. Root wounded/prisoner
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 07:26:24 -0400


Republican Advocate - Batavia NY
September 16-1862

transcribed & submitted by L. Schmidt

CAPTAIN ROOT.
This officer, attached to the 12th, but who took a company from Batavia,
arrived at Syracuse on the 6th inst. as already stated. He was wounded in
the thigh in the recent battles, and five days a prisoner. He was at length
paroled and sent home. He says that the rebels treated him kindly and
carried him from the field in a blanket to the hospital. While he was lying
upon the ground wounded, a rebel soldier came along and seized his hat, one
that he had but recently purchased in Washington. - The Captain called out
to the fellow not to take his hat away, as that was all he had to shade his
face from the burning sun. The rebel replied that he thought that he was a
dead man, and then threw him his own old hat, not worth a shilling,
remarking that "exchange was no robbery." Capt. Root kept the rebel's old
hat and wears it yet.
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