In the book 'Behind Enemy Lines' Sidney Drake Jackman writes of the fight near Rocheport on June 1st, 1863:
'A very sad and solemn even toccurred, while in this chase. I sent a few men on the fleetest horses, under Capt. Pulliam, after the fleeing enemy. He came upon them, when a brisk fight took place. But the enemy again ran.
Just as the fight came on, 5 citizens, Martin, Calvert, James Means, and Ambrose Naylor, were overtaken in the road and were under the fire of both parties. Calvert was mortally wounded and died a few hours after. These men were all Southern men and were playing Union and were regarded, by the enemy as Unionists. And Calvert had done it so gracefully that many of the Southern people doubted him greatly. I, however, used him as a spy and otherwise and he was always true. But it seemed strange that both parties should claim him and that he should be killed in battle between the two and neither he nor either party should know which killed him. He was wounded in the right shoulder and the blood poured from the wound as water from a barrel. I asked him which party shot him.
He answered by saying that, "I am going to die and if it was to save my life, I could not tell which party did it."
I now took sorrowful leave of my dying friend. Maj. Rucker was with me in this little engagement and behaved very cooly.'
'A very sad and solemn even toccurred, while in this chase. I sent a few men on the fleetest horses, under Capt. Pulliam, after the fleeing enemy. He came upon them, when a brisk fight took place. But the enemy again ran.
Just as the fight came on, 5 citizens, Martin, Calvert, James Means, and Ambrose Naylor, were overtaken in the road and were under the fire of both parties. Calvert was mortally wounded and died a few hours after. These men were all Southern men and were playing Union and were regarded, by the enemy as Unionists. And Calvert had done it so gracefully that many of the Southern people doubted him greatly. I, however, used him as a spy and otherwise and he was always true. But it seemed strange that both parties should claim him and that he should be killed in battle between the two and neither he nor either party should know which killed him. He was wounded in the right shoulder and the blood poured from the wound as water from a barrel. I asked him which party shot him.
He answered by saying that, "I am going to die and if it was to save my life, I could not tell which party did it."
I now took sorrowful leave of my dying friend. Maj. Rucker was with me in this little engagement and behaved very cooly.'
In the book 'Behind Enemy Lines' Sidney Drake Jackman writes of the fight near Rocheport on June 1st, 1863:
'A very sad and solemn even toccurred, while in this chase. I sent a few men on the fleetest horses, under Capt. Pulliam, after the fleeing enemy. He came upon them, when a brisk fight took place. But the enemy again ran.
Just as the fight came on, 5 citizens, Martin, Calvert, James Means, and Ambrose Naylor, were overtaken in the road and were under the fire of both parties. Calvert was mortally wounded and died a few hours after. These men were all Southern men and were playing Union and were regarded, by the enemy as Unionists. And Calvert had done it so gracefully that many of the Southern people doubted him greatly. I, however, used him as a spy and otherwise and he was always true. But it seemed strange that both parties should claim him and that he should be killed in battle between the two and neither he nor either party should know which killed him. He was wounded in the right shoulder and the blood poured from the wound as water from a barrel. I asked him which party shot him.
He answered by saying that, "I am going to die and if it was to save my life, I could not tell which party did it."
I now took sorrowful leave of my dying friend. Maj. Rucker was with me in this little engagement and behaved very cooly.'
'A very sad and solemn even toccurred, while in this chase. I sent a few men on the fleetest horses, under Capt. Pulliam, after the fleeing enemy. He came upon them, when a brisk fight took place. But the enemy again ran.
Just as the fight came on, 5 citizens, Martin, Calvert, James Means, and Ambrose Naylor, were overtaken in the road and were under the fire of both parties. Calvert was mortally wounded and died a few hours after. These men were all Southern men and were playing Union and were regarded, by the enemy as Unionists. And Calvert had done it so gracefully that many of the Southern people doubted him greatly. I, however, used him as a spy and otherwise and he was always true. But it seemed strange that both parties should claim him and that he should be killed in battle between the two and neither he nor either party should know which killed him. He was wounded in the right shoulder and the blood poured from the wound as water from a barrel. I asked him which party shot him.
He answered by saying that, "I am going to die and if it was to save my life, I could not tell which party did it."
I now took sorrowful leave of my dying friend. Maj. Rucker was with me in this little engagement and behaved very cooly.'
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