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The Daily Dispatch: December 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], Late Northern news. (search)
was at this time that some three hundred of Hill's command well into our hands and were conducted to the rear as prisoners. Still the enemy contested every foot of ground, and it was only by dint of the hardest kind of fighting that he could be compelled to change his position. It was during the heat of this engagement that the gallant Bayard was mortally wounded. He was conversing with Gen. Franklin when a cannon ball struck him in the hip and threw him clean out of the saddle. Poor Bayard, he never dreamt of danger in the thickest of the battle, and never lost his courage, even when his leg was amputated. The Surgeons say that he cannot survive many days, and that the operations they have performed can only prolong his agony a short while. But I am digressing from main facts. The obstinacy with which the rebels held possession of their ground rendered Gen. Franklin's task a very difficult one indeed. He had to cope with Stonewall Jackson and the veterans of Cedar Mount