. The story of American heroism; thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great Civil war, as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men . ods. witha third line in a cornfield forty yards in the rear, where the ground, graduallyrising, enabled them to fire over the heads of those below. Our right was also exposed to the sudden and terrible fire from thetroops who had broken the center division of our formation. The cornfield we were then in terminated about one hundred yardsdistant from the sunken road, leaving nothing l)ut short pasture-grass landbetween us. On coming
. The story of American heroism; thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great Civil war, as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men . ods. witha third line in a cornfield forty yards in the rear, where the ground, graduallyrising, enabled them to fire over the heads of those below. Our right was also exposed to the sudden and terrible fire from thetroops who had broken the center division of our formation. The cornfield we were then in terminated about one hundred yardsdistant from the sunken road, leaving nothing l)ut short pasture-grass landbetween us. On coming out of the corn we were unexpectedly confronted l)y theheavy masses of Confederate infantry, with their muskets resting on thetemporary breastwork, and all understood that the slaughter must be great;but no one flinched, for it was to l)e our l)aptism of fire. Our colonel dashed in front with the order to charge on his lips, andcharge we did into that leaden hail. Inside of five minutes two hundred andeighty-six men out of six hundi-ed and tliirty-five. and eight of ton coinpaiiycommanders, lay wounded or dead on that bloody slope. The colonels horse. CO enO _] oo 111 I H co03 O ITOened such a fire that five times did the enemy charge to gain possessionof the flags, only to be driven Imck with great slaughter. We were desperate then, thinking not of life, but how to regain thebroad stripes of bunting under which we had marched, bivouacked, suffered,and seen our comrades killed. To lose this would have been, in our minds,disgrace, and every man of the 1st Delaware wasready to perish rather than allow them to fall intothe hands of the enemy. Two hundred rifles guarded the stai-s andstiipes, and if they were not to be recovered byus, the f
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