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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 4: The Cavalry (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), chapter 10 (search)
Military Service Institution for March, 1910, p. 343. The following is the account of Farnsworth's death as seen by a Confederate officer and by him related to me in the winter of 1876-77 at Columbia, South Carolina: I was introduced to Captain Bachman, who commanded the Hampton Legion battery, with which I was engaged (Battery K, First United States Artillery), at Gettysburg on July 3d. Naturally our conversation drifted to the war, and he remarked: One of the most gallant incidents eplied by emptying his revolver and then hurling it at us and drawing his saber, when we shot him through the body, killing him. His men were nearly all killed, wounded, or captured, very few escaping to their own lines. General Graham adds, Bachman was a fine fellow who, like all those who fought on each side, had buried all bitterness of feeling. All things considered, it seems wonderful that these four regiments did not suffer more severely (sixty-five casualties out of three hundred