some of that artillery fire is coming from the yard of george pierce, at the eastern edge of the village. men in those batteries are members of the richmond howitzers and salem flying artillery. here is an illustration of the firing of the last gun. william brown is with the salem flying artillery. one of those shells finds this fellow here. hiram clarke. kimberlin claims him to be the last casualty. don't know that that is necessarily true. but it is a rather tragic story. hiram clarke is from marathon, new york. he is sick with jaundice in the hospital. he finds out his regimen is moving out i campaign, he absents himself from the hospital and joins his resident -- regimen. arching all the way to appomattox, and is hit by an artillery shelled and killed outright. we always knew about this -- this illustration. a couple years ago, found a photo of him. one of the last casualties of appomattox. 6'3" inches -- 6'3". as they are falling back, there are 25 men of the fourth and 14th north carolina volunteer to sacrifice themselves while gordon's men retreat. they are led by this fellow here

the charge kind of suspends itself right in front of the home of george pierce. by one account, there are north carolinians under ransom in the yard that repost this charge. confederate troops had gone into camp behind the house. they hear this fighting. an account is given by isaac bradwell of the 31st your jet. he says, that they received provisions that came from somewhere. so with the county earlier, there were supplies taken from appomattox and brought back tolee's -- to lee's army. they are cooking these reactions he says when fighting of a severe character started in the village nearby. we were called to much to that point. before we reached the scene of engagement, it was over with. and when we got into the little town, we saw a number of artillery pieces standing silently without anyone near. going back to the rations a little bit. confederates were hungry on this campaign, not because there weren't rations, but that they couldn't get the rations. that was grant's doing. he understood that if you want to defeat an army, you have to take away their ration