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 Tho prosiding officer iniredueod “ Colonal Robort Seldon, who will road the paper af the ovoning : Ut the numa—for “ Bob” Seldon had been ono nf his fnthor's moasmates, and had fought all through the Poninaula Cumpaign nt his aide.
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Ho wan a tall, hawk-fauood man with a gray imporial, The room was still ay he arone, and alter aljusting hia wlussea, he Lopan to road his story, He reeatled tho situation of tho Army of the Potomne in the springs of 18465; for throa yours it had marched and fought, stumbling through defo aftor dofent, am ighty weapon, lacking only @ man who could wisle it, Now at laat tha man had come--ono who would put thom into the hattlo and give them a chance to fight, So thay had marvhed into the Wildernoss, und thors Lae strug thom, and for three duys thoy groped ina blind thicket, fighting hand to hund, amid suilooating ameke, The Jolonel roud in a qriot, unassuming voieo ; but one ood es that ho had hold of his hourors by the light tluvt orossed their foaturos whon he tald of the army's rovoil from the shoek, and of the wild joy that ran through the ranks whon thoy took up thor mural 10 the laff, ond realized that tia time they were not going baok. ~So thay came to the bvelvo daye? grapple of tho Spatisylvania Campaige,

hora waa still the Wildornoss thickot ; the onomy's infrenehmonts, covering about ight milon, lay in the shape afar dome, and ab tle eupola of it wero brenate works of honvy timbors banked with oarth, and with wiliteh and a tangle of troct in front, ho place wna tho keystone of the Confederate arch, and tho mame of it was “the Angle" Hoody Angle“ Montagna heard the man who ant next to hin di