Somebody had to take the fall for the Union disaster. And that somebody was Brig. Gen. Ebenezer Peirce. (Ebenezer Weaver Peirce. Indian History, Biography, and Genealogy: Pertaining to the Good Sachem Massasoit of the Wampanoag Tribe, and His Descendants. North Abington, Mass.: Z.G. Mitchell. 1878)