The Rutland County herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1852-1855, 1853-06-25
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one II The Mass hus.iis Volunteers. sbo
died sud ~ss buried there sbrai the year
i79a of hrfare, M 'i~ r-'urr ~ ihr troops
FROM Ctnads. BY ~ty u Otter Cr.,k. after
ibr close n he Frrnch war IN that quarter.
u mas ~ be inosh 90 youf readers tlst
tbr hr.t usns. perhaps, iho vicinity q Ru,.
land ~As yinied BY civilized fuan WIS d.
buu, that time, ,i being until then an 40
broken and uncaplarcd Wilderness by a
formcuisl party 81 Massachusetts Nolun.
tccrs, ou thoir rttufn from Canada, extiluf.
ing thcr way through that rreiou By th,
cuursc Il The streams. which Indicated b.
them the general Topography Of the coun-
try. ! shall no, be able 10 gave you the
year without historical examination.
think i was esther the year after the fnll u
0acbcr or the latter par, oftbe same year,
and subsequent - that event. Thoy were a
pan u the force, tlnnk, under the com
mand u Gen. Amherst. Their last mill
tsfy operation was against the Islt-dtr-
.Ngu, of,ef reducing which, they were PET
innicd 10 return home. They suffered
much ifrsu disease contracted among the
marshes uf the Lake, aud weir much en-.
cumbcred IN their march by the number Of
their sick, marking their course through the
wilderness with the graves Of their dead.
!, became often necessary to cruss the
streams, which they were compelled to DO
on fallen trees, and To carry thcif sick a.
cross 10 cots, siung on poles borne on the
shoulders of their comrades, who sometimes
from weakness aud eShaustation. toticred
and fell into the stream. They halted in
their weary march for a short time near
the village Of Eas, Rutland, and in oil prob.
ability the skeleton u that OF some one OF
those heroes who was 10, permitted by DIS.
ease Ia return Ia his kindred and his home
have too imperfect a recollection n
precise localities about Rutlsnd. to be sbl,
10 identify the place By your Dissertation OF
reference, but presume Nhen examinct
with reference To the probability ogmy con
J"cture, II viii be found 10 corrohorasc X.
II t certaiuiy nothing again !, that III,
remains bear evidence u having been de
Gently inferred Those men were anims
ed by high moral and religious principle,
as well as patriotism, aud would ncve
leave the remains Of comradc, a neigh
bor, perhaps a klnsman, to his last res,nl
( place IN a distant wilderness without de
ceid burial, and all the rights of christian
sepnlchrc. Though perhaps the decaye,
substance which indicates a coffin, NAV b,
nothing but the rcmains Of rude boards o
slabs made with an axe, or the banks Q
trees.
hope those remains will receive du
1870 "''' 49, 'f''f W ' litN' llb NuhDl
Will. As no man who loves his coun,r
can ever forget or contemplate without q
motion the immense debt Of gratitude W
owe 10 those self-forgetting and hcrui
men who penled aud sacrificed their live
to establish and defend our Anglo-Saxo
race, our laws, our language, our free idea
and institutions, and our religion, in tn
land which the providence of God, ihrouy
their oSertions and sufierngs, has given /
for our inheritance.
My information, though traditionary, ma
be relied on as entirely accurate; as 1t
among the earliest recollcctions of nv If
listening 10 repeated and minute Larticua
from an ancestor, who at the early are
sixteen accompanied the expedition, al
was one Of that baud, and from the circur
stance OF his becoming subsequently oil
Of the irst settlers Of Rutland County, al
residing there for near half a century,
contemporary, witness Of all the changes
which the wilderness passed into the co
. dition Of highly cultivated and thorough
1 settled country. lie always retained n
q mute recollection Of localities, and was a
euStomed 10 point with great interest
the vicinity Of East Rutland, MS one Of t
n most memorable Ia is conncxoin with Il
i event.
- If my conjecture is true, as have
y doubt 1t is, these bones may well ella
frem the patriotism of your citizens an b,
Z orable and enduring memorial. L. w.