Embers

It is strange how sickness and disease disarm our antipathy and remove our prejudices. There lay before me and enemy to the Government for which I was daily and willingly exposing my life and suffering unspeakable privation; he may have been the very man who took deadly ain at my friend and took the cruel bullet his temple; and yet, as I looked upon him in his helpless condition, I did not feel the least resentment, or entertain an unkind thought toward him personally, but looked upon him as an unfortunate, suffering man, whose sad condition called the fourth that the very health and strength which I wished to secure for him would be employed against the cause which I had espoused.