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Neither of the brothers knew how the battle went on that fatal day, when more than 40 of the diggers gave their lives for their cause, and when not a few of the soldiers also fell, including that gallant officer, Captain Wise, who had been well known and greatly liked on the field of battle before an oppressive enactment and the corrupt administration of justice drove the disfranchised diggers into the recklessness of armed revolt.
Peter Lalor, who lost his left arm in the fight, was still in hiding with a price upon his head, when Syd. and Tom recovered consciousness, and found themselves in adjoining beds, under medical treatment. Commissioner Rede, on behalf of the Government, received the wounded diggers, as well as the wounded soldiers, into the camp hospital, and several medical men, who had been engaged in digging, volunteered their services in attending to the sufferers.