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 we went right on over his dead body." "Not by a d sight!" said the Doctor. "I took an old broken French bayonet three inches long out of his mouth and he is all right."

Captain Sherman was seriously and dangerously ill for some time, and it was feared that the Doctor's prophecy might become true,—that the Captain would "leave his bones in Louisiana," but he recovered sufficiently to return home with the regiment.

Officers and men were so much needed at the time that Captain Sherman's disobedience of the order "not to leave the hospital" was condoned, and upon the recommendation of his superior officers, he was brevetted Major "for gallant and meritorious services."

Major Sherman subsequently served in the military and civil services of the State. In 1864, at the time of General Early's raid on Washington, he raised a company for one hundred days and was elected its Captain, and the company became Company K of the 6th Regiment.

He served as Assistant Adjutant General, with the rank of Colonel, and as Chief of Staff of the Division, General B. F. Butler's, from 1867 to 1876. He served fourteen years as District Attorney for Essex County, five years as Attorney General, and now a Justice of the Superior Court, where he has served since 1887.

Capt. J. Scott Todd was an excellent officer, always faithful to every duty.

He was wounded and disabled in the charge on June 14. The enemy were short of ammunition and they used broken iron. An old piece of a French bayonet three inches long struck him in the mouth, knocking out his