The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1857-01-30
The Revolutionary Characters.


A correspondent Of the Petersburg Ez
press. writing from Leetown, Jefferson coar
. !. ty. Virginia, sends that paper an interest
ing letter about revolutionary men and q
vents, from which we make the following
extract:
D In tho immediate vicinity Of this spot ar,
: the dilspidatsd and antique residences o
three distinguished Major Generals of th'
American Revolution. Within ndius o
one mile and half lived long and wear.
years. Charles Lee, tho sinister hero o
Mammouth; Hontio Gates, tho loser Of th'
battle Of Camden and The southern cam.
paign; and Adam Stephen. the early frient
Of Washington. In this little village undsl
the shadows OF tho great woods here, re-
mote from camps and the a.uhing world
thcso three WARRIORS rusted out the remain.
der Of their lives in iuglorious rcpose. Here,
if mistake not, two Of them died.
Lees house is hundred PAGES from the
little asscmblage Of houses called by his
name, and is an ol,lons building Of stone,
with chimnsys at each end, and midway
low, wltha rude porch, depcn ling as il
were, above the rough door, witha few ont
houses. Gates lived somewhat further from
the town, IN plain, undecorated building'
and Stephen occupied mansion, probably
built by tho earliest pioneers of the valley,
in which everything |, confined and small
but the FIRE place. But that Is neither
small nor confned 1t is grand, enormous.
Around il how many good companions
must have gathered IN the olden day, and
what sounds Of rcvelry shook the raftcrs
overhead You may read of Adam Ste
phen in Srarks' edition Of the writings OF
Washington, and there you will find that,
am ing the hardy gentleman who stood
shoulder to shoulder with the young chief
Nashington) at Winchester, when the
Indians n.vased the valley q hundred years
uSo, ""' i,e''o"a"' s''p"s". s'
landed proprietor here.abouts, he doubtless
resented the trespass of the Indians upon
his grounds, stretching toward the foot of
the great North Mouhta'n W leas' W. kno"
that he did good service. He was after
wards an effective olhcer ot the kcVolut'ona.
ry struggle, but leit the army about the pc
riod OF tho Battle OF Princeton d'ssusted ut
something or other - "nd 70 came hi'her'
and lived and died.
VI Gates ana Lee more 10 known. Inc
story of the wofil quarrel OF the latter, with
Washington at Monmouth, you may read
in full in tho recently Published third vol
ume oi irvlnHs great work. IL" prooao'e
that history Will hnally show that Lee was
not 10 much IN the wrong aS tue w"''a sup
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