Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Col. Devens” in chapter 4 of Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865:
...bluff, loading and firing, until they were shot down.
As one rebel officer afterward said: Fewer of the Massachusetts officers would have been killed, if they had not been too proud to surrender.
Col. Devens of the Fifteenth Massachusetts explained in his report that under the circumstances, he would have surrendered to a foreign foe, but to traitors and rebels, never!
The hurrying crowd of the broke...
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