...g Mr. Pierson and three men, Mr. Pierson then said, I am gone; you must get out the best way you can, giving the order to strike the flag. I then made answer: That cannot be done. The coxswain, Thomas McCarty , and quartermaster, Julius Bartlet, repeated the answer: No, no. By this time we were out of musket-range, with the exception of those who ran down the bank and kept up a brisk fire until we were ...