Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Lieutenant Baker” in chapter 20 of William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik:
...e neck.
He was carried out of the barn and laid upon the grass, and there died about four hours afterwards.
Before his misguided soul passed into the silence of death he whispered something which Lieutenant Baker bent down to hear.
Tell mother I die for my country, he said, faintly.
Reviving a moment later he repeated the words, and added, I thought I did for the best.
His days of hiding and fleeing...
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