"Shoot, d—n you, shoot! you know what I would say! Shoot, and be d——d to you!"
He was present, and acted bravely, in almost every affair of consequence, in the brigade of Marion. At Quimly, Captain Baxter, a man distinguished by his great strength and courage, as well as size, and by equally great simplicity of character, cried out:
"I am wounded, Colonel!"
"Think no more of it, Baxter," was the answer of Horry, "but stand to your post."
"But I can't stand," says Baxter, "I am wounded a second time."
"Lie down then, Baxter, but quit not your post."
"They have shot me again, Colonel," said the wounded man, "and if I stay any longer here, I shall be shot to pieces."
"Be it so, Baxter, but stir not," was the order, which the brave fellow obeyed, receiving a fourth wound ere the engagement was over.
Colonel Horry and Captain Merritt's Conflict.—Page [15].