one could give any information in regard to it.
Fludder found it where it had been dropped in the confusion of
retreat, and in order to save it tore it from the staff and secreting
it about his person, thus brought it in. Samuel Hilton, who had been
left on the field for dead, also came straggling in; he had been hit
in the temple by a partially spent fragment of a shell and laid out
senseless and inanimate, and was afterwards revived by the drizzling
rain, as were also quite a number belonging to other regiments.

Company F had its full share of losses in killed and wounded. The
first man of the company wounded was John B. Landers, shot through
the wrist; then followed John Rogers, shot in the leg, Charles
Becherer, color sergeant, wounded in the shoulder, Albert N. Burdick,
color corporal, wounded in the arm, John P. Peckham, shot in the head
and killed, Andrew P. Bashford, shot in the breast and taken
prisoner, Theodore W. King, shot through the groin, mortally wounded,
taken prisoner, and afterwards died in Philadelphia, when on his way
home, Thomas J. Harrington, shot in the head and killed, Allen
Caswell, shot in the stomach, Henry T. Easton, wounded in the arm,
Samuel Hilton, wounded as above stated, Bartlett L. Simmons, taken
prisoner, Robert Crane, never accounted for, but supposed to have
been killed during the retreat.

July 24th, Doctor David King and Alderman James C. Powell, of
Newport, arrived in camp. Doctor King obtained a pass through the
lines for the purpose of attending his son, wounded as above stated,
and who was a prisoner in Richmond. Alderman Powell was deputed by
the city government of Newport to look after the sick and wounded of
Company F on their way home.

Orders were received, July 24th, to make preparations for return to
Rhode Island, as our term of service had expired. Colonel Burnside
offered the services of the regiment for a longer time, as it was
expected that the rebels would make an attack on Washington; but it
was thought our services would not be needed, and preparations for
departure were accordingly made. On Thursday, July 25th, we had dress
parade for the last time in Washington. After the parade, the 2d
Regiment was formed in line directly opposite and facing us, and the
men of the two regiments exchanged muskets, each with the man
opposite him; the muskets of the Second were old, smooth bore,
altered over, while those of the First were the latest improved
Springfield ri