It is very common for the wounded to cheer their more fortunate comrades as they pass on to the attack. The most remarkable occurrence of this description took place at Vimiera, … A man of the name of Stuart, the piper belonging to the 71st regiment, was wounded in the thigh very severely, at an early period of the action; and having refused to be removed, he sat on a bank, playing martial airs for the remainder of the battle. He was heard to address his comrades thus:— Weel, my bra lads, I can gang na longer wi ye a fightin, but Deel burn my saul if ye shall want music. For this the Highland Society justly voted him a handsome set of pipes with a flattering inscription engraved upon them. - The Military Sketch-Book, Reminiscences of Seventeen Years in the Service at Home and Abroad, by an Officer of the Line, 1827, Vol II
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