Sentence:  Colonel Frederick W. Lander , <WSD>impersonated</WSD> , will again make his break-neck ride down the steep declivity of Talbott 's ( now College ) Hill and thunder across the bridge to join Colonel Benjamin F. Kelley 's ( West ) Virginia Infantry , then swarming through the streets in pursuit of the retreating Confederates . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  assume or act the character of