This was their account which I heard at the time and often afterwards. When the Refugees came up they fired a volley to signalize their friends in the orchard near Pine's Bridge, and ap- -proached the house without making fur- -ther 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
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the noise he sprang up, raised the window sash at 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 was ever heard to utter. Greene half dressed but sword in hand said: 'We must sell our lives as dearly as we can,' and approaching the head of the stairs called aloud to the soldiers below: 'Stand to your arms, men! - courage! - They are are only a pack of cow-boys! Fire away!' &c. Flagg approached the window from which the lieutenant had fired and a volley was 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
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dead at the door. He was the first one they killed on breaking in. Flagg though desperately wounded was yet alive and they despatched him. Four or five were lying dead in the house, and four or five were dead where the tents stood east of the house, besides many wounded. Great part - at least one half of the Rhode Island regiment were ut off at this time.