. Yankee ships and Yankee sailors : tales of 1812 . uld be charged in this fashion, stood theirground. Shortland had lost all control of himself. Halt! Aim ! And before the astoundedvictims knew what was going to happen, he hadgiven the word to fire. A crashing volley sounded. When the smokecleared away, wounded and dying men filled theyard. The rest, panic-stricken, had retreated intothe buildings. Seven were killed and fifty-six werewounded ! Poor Abbott, who had been trying tourge his comrades to hasten, was among the first tofall, shot through the lungs. As no one told ofhis exchange of na
. Yankee ships and Yankee sailors : tales of 1812 . uld be charged in this fashion, stood theirground. Shortland had lost all control of himself. Halt! Aim ! And before the astoundedvictims knew what was going to happen, he hadgiven the word to fire. A crashing volley sounded. When the smokecleared away, wounded and dying men filled theyard. The rest, panic-stricken, had retreated intothe buildings. Seven were killed and fifty-six werewounded ! Poor Abbott, who had been trying tourge his comrades to hasten, was among the first tofall, shot through the lungs. As no one told ofhis exchange of names, he was buried under thename he had assumed, Harvey Rich. And whatof the real owner of that name ? Alas, he, poorfellow, also, did not live to see his home in theNew Hampshire hills, for he died at sea not longafter the cartel in which he was returning had setsail. He was sent overboard in the sailors canvasshroud, and the name George Abbott was strickenfrom the list of liberated ones. Few knew the truth,and, perhaps, few there were who The deadly vollev.
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