A lad of fifteen years of age belonging to the 5th
Wisconsin, whose name is Douglas, and resides at Beaver Dam, was in the battle
of Williamsburg, and got his gun wet so that he could not fire. During the hottest of the fight, and whilst
the regiment was falling back, he deliberately sat down, took out his screw
driver, unscrewed the tube from his gun, dried it out, put it back, capped it,
got up and put into the field as if nothing unusual was going on.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, June 7, 1862, p. 1
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