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immediately in front of where Capt. W___ was blown up fifteen or twenty live torpedoes have since bee dug up, and that is exactly where I came out of our works. I was lucky enough to escape but poor John Wyant, steped on illegible] and exploded it tearing up one leg and badly shatering the other. David Staton was shot dead on the field the ball striking him in the eye. Wyant lived but two days. Charlie Johnson and myself are the only ones that are at this Hospt. he is wounded in the neck but is doing well. Patrick Finn John Clark Thos & Henry Doyle and Frank Depry were all slightly wounded but left in the field Hosp. Edward Lane our color bearer was shot through the bowels, after planting the colors on their works A braver lad never lived he belonged to Co K was from Jerseyville after he was shot he sent his compliments to the