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The Daily Dispatch: August 21, 1861., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 16 (search)
nd men had mingled in the strife for victory. Our major was shot through the body and carried from the field in a dying condition. Our captain had his horse shot from under him, and we thought he was killed. Our first lieutenant, gallant old Tom Adrian, was laying on the ground shot through the thigh, and numbers of our men lay around dead and dying. We gained a piece of woods, and the New York Fire Zouaves, whom we had been fighting against, seeing our momentary confusion, gave three cheers; it was the last cheer many of them ever uttered. Our lieutenant, old Tom Adrian, than whom a braver man never wore hair, shouted out "Tigers, go in once more, go in my sons, I'll be greatly, gloriously God d — d if the s — s of b — s can ever whip the Tigers." Our blood was on fire, life was valueless, the boys fired one volley, then rushed upon the foe with clubbed rifles beating down their guard; they then closed upon them with their knives. "Greek had met Greek;" the tug of war had come. <