When the Refugees came up they fired a volley, to signalize their friends in the orchard near Pines Lridge, and approached the house without making further use of their arms, calling upon the inmates to surrender. The young Lieutenant always slept with a pair of loaded pistols upon a stand at the head of his bed, and when he heard the niose he sprang up, raised the window sash, on the west side of the room and discharged both pistols at the enemy-- who instantly cried out : ' Kill ! Kill ! no quarter ! ' Flagg then exclaimed

aloud to the Lieutenant, calling him by name, " you've undone

us.' These were the last words he v/as ever heard to utter. Green, half dressed, but sword in hand, said. ' we must sell our lives as dearly as v,-e can!" and approaching, the head of the stairs, called aloud to the soldiers below : ' Stand to your arms men ! Courage ! They are only a parcel of cow boys, fire away ! ' Flagg approached the window from which the Lieutenant had fired, and a volley vwis discharged at him. He fell, pierced with five or six balls.

When I entered the house just after the refugees had left, the young lieutenant was lying dead at the door. He was t'ne first one they killed on breaking in. Flagg. though desperately v.-oundcd, was yet alive and they dispatched him. Four or five were dead, where the tents stood cast of the house, besides many wounded. .A. greater part, at lea'^t half of the Rhode Island recrimcnt were cut off at this time. Besides the otticer I