Dated Dublin Depot (Virginia) Oct. 10, 1863, Father J Heidenkamp requests of General (Eliakim P.) Scammon a promise of safe passage across federal lines for Count Felix Lychnowsky, a non combatant lay brother, wounded in Wytheville. The Count lost his leg trying to protect the church, and must cross federal lines to return home to his family in Europe. Father Heidenkamp describes the incident in the letter's post script: "In an earlier letter I gave you an account of the manner in which Count Lychnowsky was wounded, but as it may have been lost, I think it not superfluous to describe the occurrence again: After the firing in the streets of Wytheville had ceased and I noticed the burning of houses, I sent Count L. in his capacity of my Lay brother to the church to protect the building as far as he might. he was dressed in his clerical habit, and unarmed. As soon as he appeared in sight of the picket guarding the lane leading from our boarding house to the church he was halted and at once fired at, there being only the distance of seven steps between the place where he could first be seen and the spot where he fell. The distance from which he was shot was not quite two hundred yards in an air line."