. . f the Third Ken-tucky was instantly conflict was ofbrief duration. When itwas seen that there was nohope of success, a retreatwas ordered. As far aspossible the wounded wereborne from the field, butmany were unavoidablyleft on that crimsoned slope,to fall into the hands ofthe enemy. At the riflepits which had been occu-pied by the rebel pickets,there was a rally. Adju- DAVID SPINDLFR, f J company a, sixty-fifth. tant Brewer Smith, Lieu- Killed at Spring Hill, Tennessee, tenants Bush and McCune, November 29, 1864. Serge
. . f the Third Ken-tucky was instantly conflict was ofbrief duration. When itwas seen that there was nohope of success, a retreatwas ordered. As far aspossible the wounded wereborne from the field, butmany were unavoidablyleft on that crimsoned slope,to fall into the hands ofthe enemy. At the riflepits which had been occu-pied by the rebel pickets,there was a rally. Adju- DAVID SPINDLFR, f J company a, sixty-fifth. tant Brewer Smith, Lieu- Killed at Spring Hill, Tennessee, tenants Bush and McCune, November 29, 1864. Sergeant-major Pope and others of the Sixty-fifth gathered about the colors, thirty or fortyof that regiment. Officers of the Sixty-fourth and other regi-ments did the same, the purpose being to check the rebels,should they attempt a counter-charge. For some time this linewas held and a vigorous fire wras kept up, until they were or-dered to retire. The assault cost, in the aggregate, twenty-five hundred men,killed or wounded, among them many valuable officers. Our. i864.] T1IH BRIGADE IN BiO 549 brigade bore its full share of loose isualties numbering nearly three hundred, including twenty-nine officers. It suffereda sore bereavement in the death of its knightly leader, GeneralCharles G. Harker. While animating his men, far up the slope,he was stricken down by a ball which passed through his armand into the breast. He was borne from the field, and throughthe day tender hands and loving hearts endeavored to assuagehis suiYering. The surgeons did all in their power to avert a fatal result, but when asked if there was hopethey sadly shook theirheads. Chaplain RobertG. Thompson, of the Six-ty-fourth , and C h a plainThomas Powell, of theSixty-fifth, were both atthe side of the dying hero,offering such ministrationsas lay in their power. (Gen-eral Harker was a man ofdeep religious convictions,and his private life was without spot and blame-less/ Toward eveningthat brave, noble, chival-r
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