Incidents of the Baltimore fight.
--The following incidents of the fight in
Baltimore, on Friday last, are reported by the "Exchange," of that city:
When the young man
Ward was shot, he was standing, with others of his acquaintance, upon the pavement, one of whom witnessed the proceeding, and marking the man who fired the shot, he drew his revolver, and taking deadly aim, fired.
The soldier fell to the earth, and would have been torn to pieces had the police not interfered.
Being carried in a store near by, he was surrounded by several citizens, and it soon became evident that he was dying.
Whilst in the last thrŒs of death, he exclaimed ‘"I have got what I deserved; I left a peaceful and happy home to come and invade the land of my brother."’--These were the last audible words he uttered.
A resident of this city was forced by the rush of the crowd in close proximity to one of the soldiers.
He raised his gun, and taking deliberate aim pulled the trigger.
The cap exploded, but the gun failed to go off. The citizen rushed forward, and seizing the musket, plunged the bayonet almost entirely through his body.
The soldier, who was an Irishman, fell to the ground, and was carried to the sidewalk, where he called those around him to bear witness ‘"that he thanked his God, although he was dying himself, that his gun had not exploded; that he never desired this service, and was pressed into it under the threats of death; that the people of
Baltimore did right; and that the rest of the troops deserved his fate."’ At the moment of death he again repeated his protest against this unholy war upon brethren and said he justified the people of
Baltimore, and that he and his comrades had been led to believe that the people of
Baltimore thought exactly upon political subjects as the people of
Massachusetts did.
