said Hyde. This was done, and "Attention" brought every man to
his feet. With the regiment were two young boys who carried the
marking guidons, and Hyde ordered these to the rear. They
pretended to go, but as soon as the regiment charged came along
with it. One of them lost his arm, and the other was killed on
the field. The colors were carried by the color corporal, Harry
Campbell.

Hyde gave the orders to left face and forward and the Maine men
marched out in front of a Vermont regiment which lay beside them;
then, facing to the front, they crossed a sunken road, which was
so filled with dead and wounded Confederates that Hyde's horse
had to step on them to get over.

Once across, they stopped for a moment in the trampled corn to
straighten the line, and then charged toward the right of the
barns. On they went at the double-quick, fifteen skirmishers
ahead under Lieutenant Butler, Major Hyde on the right on his
Virginia thoroughbred, and Adjutant Haskell to the left on a big
white horse. The latter was shot down at once, as was his horse,
and Hyde rode round in front of the regiment just in time to see
a long line of men in gray rise from behind the stone wall of the
Hagerstown pike, which was to their right, and pour in a volley;
but it mostly went too high. He then ordered his men to left
oblique.

Just as they were abreast a hill to the right of the barns, Hyde,
being some twenty feet ahead, looked over its top and saw several
regiments of Confederates, jammed close together and waiting at
the ready; so he gave the order left flank, and, still at the