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2.  boys all say he is a fair terror for fight & very fond of the bayonett.  Its to be hoped he can instill a little of his back-bone into me when the time comes.  Some of the chaps in my section have been with him nearly all the time.  One chap, an old pal out of the 25th, Pettigrew by name, has been on the peninsular since the landing.  He was wounded in the Lone Pine charge, one in the ribs, & one through the throat.  At the present time he is answering the bugle.  It goes for defaulters about every half-hour after parade & about a quarter of an hour after six in the morning, when the defaulters have to race up & answer the roll call.  Pettigrew tried to

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