New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-11-08
An Incident Of the Revolution,

s The want Of provisions in the camp of Bur-
goyne, just previous to his capture by the
Americans, began to be severely felt; the
Americans had seized their last supply which
some boats contained; all resort to the country
lying round, where tory friends were to be
found, was totally cut off The prosecuting
Americans had fenced them in as with a wall
Of vengeance, which could not be passed; famine
had commenced its unnerving power, sickness
was multiplied among the sodiery, fever, at
tended with its delirums, raved from couch to
couch. Water, water was the incessant cry
And although the Hudson on one side of the
camp poured along its silent waters, and the
rapid stream Of Fish Creek roared sweetly in
the ears of the sick and desponding forces, yet
it was impossible to snatch drop from those
dreadfully guarded waters: hundred bullets
were sure to pierce whoever made the attempt,
soon as they stopped to touch the silver current
But such were the cries for water, by the sick
and dying, that their women, moved by pity,
were made superior to the dreadful crisis (ima-
ginning that the Americans would not, from feel
ings Of gallantry, shoot female,) snatched
hastily their pals, and ran to the shores to try
what the event might be. Their opinion Of the
enemy, as it proved, with respect to their per-
sons, was correctly formed, but their pals were
doomed to a harder fate, for while they could
not find it in their hearts to spill the blood of
defenceless females, they were sure to riddle
their pals as they hung from their hands, SO
that ilttle or no water could be procured.
In this dilemma, q faithful wife, who had left
her native country for love of her husband, who
was one Of the unfortunate Hessians sold by his
Government to the King of England at certain
sum ahead, to fight in cause, the merits OF
which he knew nothing; this woman, as she
moved from couch to couch, listening to the
means of the sick for water, suddenly resolved
81 will try, perhaps | may succeed to bring a
little" Her husband tried to dissuade her, but
Ishe persisted, her sympathies were strong, for
| as ~ kind and comforting angel she made it her
business to hover over the diseased and wounded
of her eountrymen (the Hessians) all the while
she had been in the army. She sprang along
| the adventurous path that led to the dreaded
shore. her husband following close as far as he
dared; already she stood ut the brink in full view
| of the guns on the other side; for moment she
cast an imploring glance that way, and then tc
heaven for protection; her right hand hao
dashed the vessel deep into the waters; a strug.
gle to clear the open shore and reach the deeply.
| shaded bank, had marked her agitated demean.
or, when ball, aimed at her pail, struck, az
she had stopped over the vessel too low. hel
angel bosom; the blood spouted and dyed the
ground before her quivering frame fell Grim.
sened in the gore Of her faithful heart.
I Her husband, who had waited but shor
stant eye from his all of earth, while within his
soul vibrated between the vast extremes of hop,
| and despair, her screceh struck his ear, hel
reeling frame showed him that the shaft of deatl
had cleft her heart asunder. She had but
touched the ground where she fell when hi
arms enclosed her, dyed in spouting blood from
her bosom; frantic with grief, he dreaded no
the flash of the deadly rifle, but bore her to tn,
camp struggling in the pang of dissolution Will
he impressed on her fading forehead the las
kissiof fervent affection. 9.- s
4 The grief of this man was respected; not
4 gun moved its trigger; hushed were the yolley
Of the sympathizing, yet brave Vermonters
her pail, and not her person, had been the air
of the distressed marksman, the Green noun
taineer. l ssfl