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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 9 (search)
bed; and officers, seizing the rifles dropped from dead hands, joined in the fray. After half an hour of this desperate work, the position was secured. Meantime, Weed's brigade of Ayres' division of the Fifth Corps The One Hundred and Fortieth New York, of this brigade, had gone up simultaneously with Hazlitt's battery, and put a heavy sacrifice. Colonel Vincent, who had so heroically met the first shock, laid down his life in defence of the position; O'Rourke and the much-beloved General Weed were killed; Hazlitt, who commanded the battery, also fell at his perilous post; Hazlitt was bending over the prostrate form of his commander, General Weed,General Weed, and receiving his last words and sighs, when a bullet threw him prone and inanimate on the body of his comrade in glory and in death. and among the ledges of rocks lay many hundred dead soldiers in blue. Towards dark, after Chamberlain's charge, Fisher's brigade of the Pennsylvania Reserves re-enforced Vincent's troops; and la