...were more than comrades, who fell in a fearful struggle. Eleven of our little band are sleeping now in their bloody garments with the cold earth above them. Braver men never lived ; truer men to the plighted word never banded together. Five of them fell while fighting in self-defense for the cause...

...of age. On the 22d of November Edwin Coppoc wrote home an account of the battle in which he says : " Eleven of our little band are now sleeping in their...truer men to their plighted word never banded together Aa our comrades fell we could not minister to their wants as they deserved, for we were surrounded...

...November 22d, three weeks before his execution, he wrote: "Eleven of our little band are sleeping now in their bloody garments with the cold earth above...men to their plighted word never banded together." Rigidly true to their convictions were all these young heroes. Not one showed the white feather in...

...were more than comrades, who fell in the fearful struggle. Eleven of our little band are sleeping now in their bloody garments with the cold earth above them. Braver men never lived ; truer men to the plighted word never banded together. Five of them fell while fighting in self-defense for the cause...

...were more than comrades, who fell in the fearful struggle. Eleven of our little band are sleeping now in their bloody garments with the cold earth above them. Braver men never lived ; truer men to the plighted word never banded together. Five of them fell while fighting in self-defense for the cause...

...Of the immortal seventeen, three were Iowa boys under twenty-four years of age. On the twenty-second of November, Edwin Coppoc wrote home an account of...to keep up a brisk fire in return to keep them from charging upon us. Watson Brown was wounded on Monday, at the same time Stevens was, while carrying...