 The defenders on the right flank fought valiantly from behind what cover they could find . The men at the redoubt and breastwork fought until they had no more bullets , finally fighting with the butts of their guns , rocks , and their bare hands . Woodbridge 's regiment " was not commissioned , and there are few details of it , or of its officers , in the accounts of the battle . " Stacy 's disposition is unknown . He later signed an affidavit regarding the guns of a fellow patriot who was killed in action at Bunker Hill . Sergeant Benjamin Haskell ( <unk> ) , also of New Salem and also a co @-@ signer of that same affidavit , was reportedly in the center of the action near General Joseph Warren when Warren was killed during the battle . The New Salem Sesquicentennial Committee paid homage to Stacy , Haskell , and others of that village , proclaiming : 
