... also goes down desperately wounded so the writer, then but a youth, finds himself for the first time in command of his regiment, and the only mounted officer there. Captains Jennings and Haden, and Lieutenant Mansfield , too, the bravest of all these braves, lie dead upon the ground. Lieutenant Willie Radford, soldier and scholar, has freely given up his young life, so full of bloom and promise, in defence of home...