... our flag, the staff of which had been shot in two, and advanced to the front of the regiment. He also immediately lost his life, whereupon the flag of the regiment was carried out of the action by Corporal Geary , of Company C. It was now nightfall, and Major Junius L. Hill, who had behaved with his usual distinguished gallantry, finding that more than half of our force was destroyed, and himself exhauste...