“Yes.”
“Are you from Pennsylvania?”
“Yes; can you——”
“I see you’ve lost a”—I began to tremble now—“leg.”
“Yes, can——”
“In the army?”
I shuddered at the thought of having to stand there and answer four or five hundred questions, at that time of night; and I determined, as I perceived he was getting into a regular train of army questions, to make a desperate attempt at insulation.
“Yes, can——”
“What battle?”
“Antietam where does——”