A wounded Confederate officer's worst fear was being left behind. West of the Mississippi there was nothing like the organized ambulance service the Army of the Potomac had developed, so men were carried out by their comrades or not at all. Many of those officers had been elected by the same men who were now carrying them, neighbors from the same county, and the loyalty ran both ways. At Honey Springs in July 1863, the Confederate line broke and fell back across Elk Creek, burning the supply depot as it went. In a retreat like that, every wounded man who wasn't picked up became a prisoner, and a wounded officer was a prize.

The set shows the moment of the carry. A trooper in a gray kepi takes the officer's legs, a corporal in a gray slouch hat lifts him under the arms, and the officer slumps between them, his head fallen to one side. The gold braid on his sleeves and his yellow sash set him apart from the two enlisted men, who wear gray shell jackets with yellow cavalry trim and butternut trousers. One has torn his trousers at the knee, and his carbine is still slung at his side. Pair them with the Confederate Cavalry Officer, with Sergeant Firing Pistol covering the withdrawal, or with the Union Walking Wounded to show the cost on both sides.

King & Country model CW113. 1/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Three-figure set of two Confederate cavalrymen carrying a wounded officer, on a single sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.