carbine-balls

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For Hampden, the hope of the nation, is fatally shot through the shoulder with two carbine-balls, in the first charge; the whole troop sees it with dismay; Essex comes up, as usual, too late, and the fight at Chalgrove Field is lost. We must leave this picture, painted in the fading colors of a far-off time.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859