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An incident of the great Bethel fight.--Orderly Sergeant Goodfellow, of Col. Allen's regiment, was mortally wounded in the breast.
He handed his musket to a comrade, and several flocked around him. “Oh,” said he, “I guess I've got to go,” and he placed his hand upon the wound.
“Oh, don't mind me, boys,” he continued; “go on with the fight; don't stop for me!”
and pressing away those who attempted to support him, he sank down upon the ground.
Just at that instant his colonel passed, and looking up to him, he gasped, “Good-bye, colonel!”
Col. Allen turned ghastly white as he observed it. He bit his lips, too much moved to speak, and rushed on to avenge his death.--Idem.
Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.
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