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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 21: beginning of the War in Southeastern Virginia. (search)
was extolled by the foe. They gave his body a respectful burial at Bethel, and it was disinterred a few days afterward and taken to New York. On the 19th of April, says his friend George W. Curtis, in a beautiful sketch of his life, he left the armory-door of the Seventh, with his hand upon a howitzer — on the 21st of June, his body lay upon the same howitzer, at the same door, wrapped in the flag for which he gladly died, as the symbol of human freedom. --The Fallen Brave: edited by J. G. Shea, Ll. D., page 41. Kilpatrick, who was badly wounded by a shot through his thigh, was rescued and borne away by Captain Winslow. In his report, Kilpatrick said, after speaking of the engagement, and of a number of men being killed:--Having received a grape-shot through my thigh, which tore off a portion of the rectangle on Colonel Duryee's left shoulder, and killed a soldier in the rear, I withdrew my men to the skirts of the wood. . . . I shall ever be grateful to Captain Winslow, who rescu