Major Theodore Woolsey Winthrop 7th NYSM CDV
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Major Theodore
Woolsey Winthrop 7th NYSM CDV He was one of the first Union officers
killed in the Civil War. At the Battle of Big Bethel on
June 10, 1861, he volunteered for General Ebenezer W. Pierce’s staff and drew
up a crude plan of battle. After a Federal attack to the enemy right flank was
foiled, Winthrop led an ill-fated assault on the Confederate left held by four
companies under the command of David Henry Hill. In the heat of battle, Winthrop
leapt onto the trunk of a fallen tree and reportedly yelled, "One more
charge boys, and the day is ours." Soon thereafter, he was killed by a
musket ball to the heart and became the first casualty of rank for the Northern
side in what history regards as the first pitched land battle of the Civil War.
Ironically, ardent abolitionist Winthrop may have been shot by the
African-American slave of a Confederate officer in the 1st North Carolina
Infantry. (Three different soldiers, as well as this slave, referred to in the
records only as "Sam," claimed to have killed him.)
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