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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1842. (search)
to Lie down was given, and we lay down on the causeway, while our artillery played upon the enemy's works. About twelve o'clock General Paine gave the order for the five right companies to skirmish, the five left to storm the works. A few moments before, I saw William sitting behind a stump a dozen yards in my rear, when a bullet whizzed over me. I heard some one say Wounded, and inquired Who? and was told, Colonel Rodman. By the time I got to him he was already dead, supported in Lieutenant Howland's arms. He was in the act of rising to transmit to the regiment General Paine's order, when the fatal bullet struck him in the left shoulder, and thence, passing obliquely down through his heart, made its exit at the right side. He only said, My God, I am hit, and then I have no doubt life was extinguished instantaneously. We remained in the causeway until six o'clock, in close proximity to his dead body, when, the order to fall back having been given, the men of his old company