Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-08-16
~ GUST Is, 1885.
MAJOR GENERAL ANTHONY WAYNE.

A U u UST L 3, 1899.
MAJOR GENERAL ANTHONY WAYNE.
" Mad Anthony" as he was familiarly called
In the army, on account of his reckless, head
long courage-whose grandfather commanded a
company of dragons at the battle of the Boyne,
and whose father exhibited great sagacity and
bravery in many engagements with the savages
which prowled around his cradle-home, was
born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, on the
first day of the year l745. He never had much
taste for severe study, although he took kindly
to mathematics, and, at the age of eighteen he
left the academy at Philadelphia, and entered
upon the business of surveying. Entering warm.
ly into the controversy of the colonies with the
mother country, he became an ardent patriot,
and soon had the first wish of his heart graft
fed by military commission. In ITS, he
raised a regiment of volunteers, and was chosen
its colonel. The next year he received the ap-
pointment Of colonel from the Continental Con-
gross, and was placed at the head of one of the
Pennsylvania regiments, with which he joined
the northern army, fought, and was severely
wounded, at the battle of the "Three Rivers,,"
received brigadier's commission in TIT, was
appointed to the command of Tconderoga, and,
in the Spring following, joined Washington in
New Jersey.
On the llth and 10th of September, on the
field Of Brandywine, battle was had for a noble
prize between the American and English armies.
That prize was the city of Philadelphia. Wayne
led the advance on this occasion, and suffered
the chagrin of seeing the city fall into the hands
Of the enemy. AT Germantown, also, he fought
with bravery and prudence, but was compelled
to retreat before superior force. While our
army lay in winter quarters at Valley Forge,
Wayne was sent into New Jersey to forage,
which duty he performed to the delight of his
commander, and the surprise of the enemy,
from unds~ whose very nose he succeeded in car
rying off large supplies of cattle and forage. 1t
was of this expedition, and its leader, that the
witty Andre employed the satire of his pen in
song set to the music of Yankee Doodle. The
last stanzas of the philippe ran thus -
"But now, end my lyric strata
tremble as show it,
Lest this same warror-drover, Wayne
Should ever catch the poet"
Singularly enough, when Andre was taken, he
was delivered into the hands of this same L" war
rior- -drover."
We next find Wayne at Stony Point, which,
by well-deviscd and promptly-executed strata
gem, he assaulted and carried, killing sixty
three, and taking five hundred and forty-three
of the enemy. In the assault, he received a
shot in the knee and fell. Rising instantly on
one knee, he exclaimed, " Forward, my brave
fellows, forward!" " For this valuable service
Congress voted him thanks.
In January, 1881, the Pennsylvania army re
volted and, parading without officers, seized the
cannon, ammunition and provisions, and de-
termined to march to Congress in body, to
present their grievances. Wayne presented him
self, and tried all in his power to quell the re-
volt by words of kindness and threatening
Finding that he produced no effect on them, he
drew his pistols and swore he would shoot the
first man who moved. The soldiers presented
their muskets, and answered him thus " We
respect and love you you have often led us to
the battle field; but you are our leader no lon
ger Dare but to discharge your pistols, and
you are instantly dead man. We are still at
tached to the cause, and are ready to meet the
enemy in the breach but sOe wiH haue redress. y
For their insubordnation they were dismissed
with disgrace from the service, and the ring
leaders punished.
Wayne then went to Virginia, where he served
with Washington and La Fayette, and witnessed
the happy conclusion of the war at the surren
der of Yorktown. After some unimportan
services rendered ut the South, he retired to pri
vate lfe
The Indians on our northwestern frontier
aided by the British and tories, had grown inso
lent, and committed the most wanton ravage
and crueltes on that border. Harmar, ST. Clai
and other brave officers had yielded to their say
age prowess. In 1892, Wayne was apponte
to the command of the northwestern army
After much maneuvring, he succeeded in bring
ing the enemy to battle, and routed them wit
immense slaughter, the Indian force being twic
that of his own. This brought the savages t
their senses, and after holding out for fe'
months, they at length, on the Sd of August
1705, signed treaty of peace.
In the winter of 1896, in miserable hut a
Presque Isle, this veteran warrior, in the servic
of his country, breathed his last in the arms {
his officers, and was buried on the shores
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