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52 JAMES BAIRD WEAVER

Captain A. A. Stuart, in his volume on Iowa
Colonels and Regiments, describes "Weaver "as
a good and brave officer", and adds that "there
are few who were as cool as he in battle. At
Shiloh, while the 2d and 7th Iowa were running
that terrible gauntlet, on the afternoon of the
first day's fight, Captain Moore, of company
Q-, was shot through both legs and disabled.
Lieutenant Weaver stopped, picked Mm up, and
bore him from the field. "Under the circum-
stances, not one man in five thousand would
have imitated his example. He is a member of
the Methodist Church, and is one of the few
officers who abstained from the use of liquor in
the service."⁴⁰



	52 JAMES BAIRD WEAVER Captain A. A. Stuart, in his volume on Iowa Colonels and Regiments, describes "Weaver "as a good and brave officer", and adds that "there are few who were as cool as he in battle. At Shiloh, while the 2d and 7th Iowa were running that terrible gauntlet, on the afternoon of the first day's fight, Captain Moore, of company Q-, was shot through both legs and disabled. Lieutenant Weaver stopped, picked Mm up, and bore him from the field. "Under the circum- stances, not one man in five thousand would have imitated his example. He is a member of the Methodist Church, and is one of the few officers who abstained from the use of liquor in the service."⁴⁰