in the centre; the Connecticut, in the rear.  The Indians had erected a block-house near the entrance, filled with sharp-shooters, who also lined the palisades.  The men rushed on, although it was into the jaws of death, under an unerring fire.  The block-house told them where the entrance was.  The companies of Moseley and Davenport led the way.  Moseley succeeded in passing through.  Davenport fell beneath three fatal shots, just within the entrance.  Isaac Johnson, captain of the Roxbury company, was killed while on the log.  But death had no terrors to that army.  The centre and rear divisions pressed up to support the front and fill the gaps; and all equally shared the glory of the hour.  Enough survived the terrible passage to bring the Indians to a hand-to-hand fight within the fort.  After a desperate struggle of nearly three hours, the savages were driven from their stronghold; and, with the setting of that sun, their power was broken.  Philip’s fortunes had received a decided overthrow, and the colonies were saved.  In all military history, there is not a more daring exploit.  Never, on any field, has more heroic prowess been displayed.  By the best computations, the Indian loss was at least one thousand, including the large numbers who perished from cold, as they scattered in their flight without shelter, food, or place of refuge.  Of the colonial force, over eighty were killed, and one hundred and fifty wounded.  Three of the Massachusetts captains—­Johnson, Gardner, and Davenport—­were killed on the spot.  Three of the Connecticut captains—­John Gallop, Samuel Marshall, and Robert Seely—­also fell in the fight.  Captain William Bradford, of Plymouth, was wounded by a musket-ball, which he carried in his body to his grave.  Captain John Gorham, also of the Plymouth colony, was shortly after carried off by a fever, occasioned by the over-exhaustion of the march and the battle.  Lieutenant Phinehas Upham, of Johnson’s company, was mortally wounded.  Great value appears to have been attached to the services of this officer.  In the hurried preparation for the campaign, Captain Johnson had nominated his brother as his lieutenant.  The General Court overruled the appointment.  Johnson cheerfully acquiesced, and, in a paper addressed to the Court, assured them that he “most readily submitted to their choice of Lieutenant Upham.”  This single passage is an imperishable eulogium upon the characters of the two brave men who gave their lives to the country on that fatal but glorious day.

Captain Gardner’s company was raised in this neighborhood.  Joseph Peirce and Samuel Pikeworth of Salem, and Mark Bachelder of Wenham, were killed before entering the fort.  Abraham Switchell of Marblehead, Joseph Soames of Cape Ann, and Robert Andrews of Topsfield, were killed at the fort.  Charles Knight, Thomas Flint, and Joseph Houlton, Jr., of Salem Village; Nicholas Hakins and John Farrington, of Lynn; Robert Cox, of Marblehead; Eben Baker and