...d only once to charge, but paid so dearly for their temerity that they were not heard from again; for Brown's battalion, in ambush, with one volley mowed them down as with a scythe. Here fell their Major Garett , one captain and four lieutenants, and thirty rank and file. A private of Brown's battalion — Prophet by name — leaped over the fence into the road and captured the Major's sword, but o...