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| Keywords: blackandwhite monochrome surreal black and white Colonel E. D. Baker, while commanding the First California Volunteers, which formed part of General Stone's brigade at the battle of Ball's Bluff, and who had just before he entered battle been notified of his appointment as brigadier general, was killed while at the head of his command, pierced by bullets in the head, body, arm and side. He died as a soldier would wish to die, amid the shock of battle, by voice and example animating his men to brave deeds. (from Frank Leslie's Illustrated History of the Civil War..., edited by Louis Shepheard Moat, Published by Mrs. Frank Leslie, New York, 1895) Colonel E. D. Baker, while commanding the First California Volunteers, which formed part of General Stone's brigade at the battle of Ball's Bluff, and who had just before he entered battle been notified of his appointment as brigadier general, was killed while at the head of his command, pierced by bullets in the head, body, arm and side. He died as a soldier would wish to die, amid the shock of battle, by voice and example animating his men to brave deeds. (from Frank Leslie's Illustrated History of the Civil War..., edited by Louis Shepheard Moat, Published by Mrs. Frank Leslie, New York, 1895) | ||||
