Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1859-09-15

had como from "Dunb bar the tardY." Their
they had to iepesc that dark warm summc
night, with no couehes but bushes aud IL,
covering bat darkness, hudtlled togethe
round the declivties which form the basin o
wonder spring, whose waters assuaged their ie
vefish thirst and cooled their fostering wounds
The dums beat no tattoo. Perhaps not evel
II ''sehtincl star set its watch in the sky" Tn
birds lnshed their songs, while wolves howl
ell for their prey. Picture for your selves, i
YOU can, the dismal horrors OF that drear,
night. have no language by which to col
OF them. 1t was the saldest of all the sa,
nights which "Gist's plantation" had eve
seen. Such a night it can never see again.
On the morning Of the 18th, some provis
ious aud surgical supplies, with some wagon
for the wounded, came dawn from Dunbar
some Of which We're sent down the road t.
sueeor those get behind. Having partakel
of some refreshments and had their wound
dressed, the sad cavalcade climbs the mountain
TO the Camp of Dunbar. There everything
was terror and confusion. Some three hun
tlred Of the wounded had come in. The worn
ofdemolition was soon completed, and the re
treat began on the 18th We follow it only t
its first halt There Braddock ded--ded o
a wound inflicted, it is generally believed, ny
Pennsylvania re3ruit-Thomas Fosset-- who
III alter years, kepta tavern on the road with
in four miles of where Braddock died. Til.
may be true or not. But if hc did, his avow-
ais OF it in long after years, gave TO the deed
no verify and to him no honor.
1t is said that Braddock was borne off the
field in q tambre{ AMI then put upon horse
but was at last carried in s"mmock or lit
ter. Doubtless the latter W rncd by hil
sash fastened to poles This sh has an in
tcresting history. 1t was of long silk, very
large and strong. In long after years it is
said to have come to the possession of gem
tleman in New Orleans; which is probable G.
nough, for Braddock died with no near rela-
tive to claim it--fatheress, motherless, child
less, without brother or sister. After the
Mexican war of 1876 lad begun, this gentle
man sent the sash to Gen Gaines, with an
injunction to present it to the General who
should bear himself best in that war. After
the battle Of Buena Vista, Gaines believed
the trophy had been won, and FASTENED to
present it to Gen. Taylor With reluctance
and after much persuasion he took t--put il
in his military chest, and kcptit until he died
ON the 9th OF July, 1850, the 95th anniver-
sary of Braddeck's defeat--another of the sad
and singular condolences with which our
story of to-day abounds 1t had wrought in
it, "E. b. 1907" and had upon it stains OF
blood Additional proof of its authenticity
is in the fact that Braddock's father, whose
name-he bore, was made Brlgadier- General
in The Cold Streams in 1907.
1t is said that when braddock died, lie be-
queathed to Washington his horse and hol-
sters, ard his faithful body servant Bishop
whom he had bought in Virginia. This il
probable. Washington's owr servant in these
campaignes was Alston-John. But in al
ter years he had a servant bishop. lie it wa.
who held his horse so long in 1853, while he
courted and plithed his troth to his future
wife, Mrs. Martha Curtis. And in his will he
gives legacy to daughters of both Aston ant
Bishop.
But Aston was not his only trusty atten-
dant in the trials. He had another alread,
named-Doctor James Crnik. He was will
him in 1864, at the Meadows and at Gist's
he attended him in his sickness in 1775, a
heretofore narrated-was with him on the IA
tai field, and at the rallies, and nursed hi
dying General on the retreat and at yonde
hopeless bivouac. When Washington CAM
again to the West, in l770, to look after hi
landed interests, he was with him; and yet Il
gain in 1884, when he accompanied the Chic
OH his exploration to connect the Ohio anc
Potomac. He WAS his family physician
through life, aud he closed his eyes in death
Additional interest attaches to him in Faycttc
from his having owned two tracts of land OF
Bute's Run, in franklin township, patentet
by mistake in the name of James Craig.
believe they are now owned by Nathaniel +
PAUL, Messrs. Allen, Butes and Others.
Another of the heroes OF Braddock's cam
paign-~aso surgeon to the Virginia levies
was DR.. Hugh Mercer who fell gloriously a
Princeton, in January, 17T7. Hetoo, owne'
two tracts of land in Fay cite, under Proprle
tary Patents, (of which there are but few il
the county, near Braddock's road, upon ia
cob's Greek. His Executors sold them to Col
Isaac Meason, the successor of the Gist's a
Mt Braddock, who built yon aatial man
sion, and who, in 1929, founded Uniol
Furnace, down there, now owned by our wor
thy friends, Messrs. Baldwin and Oheny.
Nor must we overlook other men of renowl
who played their parts, with Washington
and Braddock, in the drama OF Gists. Her
was Gladwyn, a Lieutenant in the 18th, who
having survived the shock Of Pontlac's lnd
an hosts at Turtle Creek, had to sustain asains
him, in 1868, the long and perilouS siege o
Detroit. Here also, though a tsamster, wa
the renowned Colonel Dan. Morgan, the Ne,
ofthe Revolution, on almost every hard Tough
field from Canada to the Carolnas and who's
last military service was to suppress thu
"Whiskey instruction" out herein lI94-9
Here two was Gates, now Captain OF thu
New York Independeuts-ther afterwards
captor of Burgoyne at Saratoga, who Listened
to a plot to suppant Washington "s General
in-Chef, and whose laurels therenp"n faded
n the South. Here also was Gage, Lcnten
ant Colonel of the 44th--the Gen. Gage VIII,
began the Revolutionary battles at Concord
Lexington and Bunker Hill, and whom
Washington, in 1T7G, so signally routed from
Boston. lie fought well on Braddock's field
and British historians are fond ofgivngto hin
the honor of bringing off the retreat Blu
Washinnton, after he bad started that nigh
with orders to Dunbar, fell in with Gag
conducting his own retreat, and induced hin
to return to the rally to take care OF his dy
ing General. Washington never liked hln
afterwards; and after his evacuation of Bos
ton, the Chief could compare the waste an'
destruction of the material of war which h
there saw, only with that which he and Gag
had witnessed at the Camp of Dunbar-per
haps the only lesson of that campaign
which he could Illustrate by practice. Their
were many other worthy men here IN 90
some OF whom were slain--the lla!kcts Shir
ley, Poison; some of whom survived-Adan
Stephen, Walter Stewart, WAGNER and Hair
nv Gordon; afterwards, in 1869, the Engince
OF Fort Pitt, after Forbes had. in November
1853 driven France from the Ohio valley an,
ratrieved the Disasters Of Washinetoa's anC
of Braddock's campaigns.
These scenes around Gists, through whici
we have thus hurriedly carried you, were bc
the prelude to that long and eventful war
which by the treaty Paris, in 1925, DIES
poiled France of all her possessions in Amer
lea. 1t was war of Races and Religion. 1t
prizes were Freedom and continent. 1t wa
the pertinacious efforts of the King and Par