He, too, was carried to the rear, and the bearers laid their commanding general down beneath a great live oak tree in the center of the field, just out of firing range. The surgeon summoned to his side could do nothing, but the dying Pakenham was able to utter one last command. For the ear of John Lambert, the only British major general left standing, Pakenham whispered, “Tell him . . . to send forward the reserves.” Pakenham had fallen, well short of New Orleans, and would die quietly on the battlefield within the hour. General Gibbs, though in evident agony, survived into the next day,
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