Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1844-05-02

Dogs Misery, where the main army un.
der General Washington in person, was
to be stationed. Here Corporal Spin
button was to receive q check and draw
off his forces, leaving behind him his bag
gage, consisting of two knapsacks Of
bread and cheese. The whole Ameri
can army was then 10 take up the line oil
march, and proceed in three colmns thro'
w idow McQuirks's COW pasture and
Skrunk Siah's orchard, till they arrived
at Deacon Styles cabbage garden, where
they were to debouch and prepare fol
the grand attack. The assault was TO be
made by the main body, under General
Washington. while detachment of five
men, under Sergeant Doolittle, were to
maneuvre upon the enemy's flank and
storm his out works consisting Of a couple
Of haycocks. Hereupon the enemy was
to beat parley, and Lord CORVALLIS was
to despatch flag oc truce TO General
Washington to treat Of surrender but
the two ge6erals not agreeing about the
terms, the action was to be renewed, and
sharp firing was TO be kept up as long
as the ammunition held out. AT this
time, finding the fortune of the day
going against him, General Washing
ton was to put himself al the head of the
troops and lead them Oh at the point OF
The bayonet. The detachment above
mentioned having possessed themselves
of the enemy's haycock out.works, and a
rayein and half moon made by pile
of logs, were 10 pour in CALLING fire
and enfiiade the whole tenaille of the en-
emy's works. Taking advantage of this,
General Washington was to enter the in
trenchments sword in hand when the
enemy was to hoist the white flag, and
the surrender Of the pigstye was to fol.
low.
Certainly Josh Beanpoles general or.
ders were drawn up as well as any of
Bonaparte's bulletins. The plan of the
campaign was excellent, and not a man
on the ground but what would have bet.
ted ten to one that Josh and his army
would have carried the pigstye, but by
The strangest chance in the world it
turns out that Count O'Reily did not take
AIgires, but Alglres took him.
The rival armies took their stations,
and the battle begun. Immense crowds
1ocked around the scene of action, all
wrapt 10 wonder and breathless with Gu
riosity to view the great spectacle Of
tho capture Of Yorktown. All eyes
were turned upon General Washington,
the whole of this eventual day. Josh
did really cut most gallant figure at the
head of the American army on this oc.
casion. His dazzling regimentals with
their show of brass buttons and vel
low baize shown out among the general
officers ofthe staff, like the meridian sun
among the stars. His enormous chapeau
surmounted with bunch of cockerel
feathers a yard in hight caused him to
look up from the rank and file the army.
like one of Don Quixote's giants, while
his legs being incased in monstrous
pair of cow-hide boots that came afoot
and half above his knees imparting
most imposing military stiffness to his
Washington General
Washington !! exclaimed every tongue,
and every one agreed that
--Take him all in all
They ne'er should look upon his like again.
The old men gaped and wondered, the
old women did the same, the boys shouted
and marvled, the girls looked on, started
and admired. Josh Beanpole never ap-
peared so irresistible before; Nance was
absolutely delighted, and every body
thought she was positively done for.
The first part ofthe plan Of operation
succeeded to admiration. The Ameri-
can scouts discovered the British just in
The nick of time, and fell upon them at the
moment when they were about to make
terrible havoc among Deacon Styles
cabbages. The retreat was ably man.
aged and the marching and countermsrch-
ing executed without any other mishap
Than the loss of a corporal and two pri-
Yates who got stuck in the mud at Long
Twisted Boggrey and little pursy duck
egged drummer who fell into Pegs Run