New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-08-09
Rrat}ieckss Field,

The subjoined touching reminiseRce of Brad
docks Fieid-so lannon's in our early history--wea
extract from one of a series of able letters adj
dressed to the Pittsburg Presbyterian, by highly
intelligent travelling correspondent descriptive Of
interesting and important il 'idents in the
history of cur country:
CANNoNsBuRGH Pa June an.--lG 1878. Editors
My pen arrested in my last /, ter at a. Brad
docks Field.N Before leaving tina beautiful and
classic spot it may prove not unlnterestng to your
readers to record reminisence of the oden time,
connected with that fatal field. One Of the regi-
ments composing Braddock's army was command
ed by Col. Sir Peter Halket and both he and his
son. Lieut. Halket, fell in that bloody fray, the
9th of July, l775. More than three years after
QT8) Fort Duquense was taken by Britannica
American army under MaiorGeneral Forbes.
The dead of Braddock's Field had never been bur-
led, and shortly after the capture Of the French
fort (now Pittshurg) it determined to send out
detachment to collect and bury such OF the re-
mains of the slain as might yet be found. Captain
West, tthe elder brother Of Benjamin West, the
great painter,) with his company of American
" sharpshootersn was detailed as guard of this
funeral expedition.
of the slain Sir Peter, determined to accompany
the expedition, in the hope of being able to recog
nize the bones of his father and brother. "A dis
tinguished Indian warrior who on Braddock's field
had fought with the French, but who now, with his
tribe, at peace with the English, said that he
had seen an English officer answering the des
cription of Sir Peter shot down at the ronI Of
remarkable tree, near to the spot where he {the
IndianO was stationed in the fight, and that he had
young officer to the aid of the older one
and fall across his body mortally wounded. Sir
| Peter, the younger, was impressed with the con.
vetion that these must he his father and brother.
and said he could identify the former by an aftil
| cal tooth, il the remains could be found.
| The march is commemorative procession moves
upon their mournful errand with military precision
| and funeral solemnity. The somber SONS of the
forest, looking upon the unusual pageant Us OF a.
religious character precede with dignified So
| briefly of mien that proves that even the savage
breast beats responsive to the noblest svmpathies
The deep forests, clothed in russell hue-for it
| is November--are traversed; the bleached skeie-
TONS found here and there by the way tell OF other
deaths than those upon the battle field The fatal
| plain is reached-the dusky warrior strikes out
4 through the forest to seek the peculiar looking
| tree beneath which the aged hero ard the yanng
had fallen; his shout soon gives intinatpn that he
has been successful; the soldiers are formed III
hollow square around the spot intiicated the Off
GERS and Indian guides inside the grass and BRUSH
wood are torn away; the bones of the young man
under skeleton is found, examined by Major Hal
ket and with the bursting cry, " lt i my father r.
he faints back into the of his brother officers
| AS the brave but rough old Scotsman. General
i! Forbes, was advancing upon Fort Duqaesne, in
| 1853, the gallant but unfortunate Col Grant, with
part of the Highanders and provincial troops,
left the main body and advanced upon the fort on
the l4th of September. Being attacked and out
his detachment sadly cut to pieces, and many
slaughtered upon and near the eminence which il
still called "Grant's HiIl,n now covered hy the
city. When, some weeks afterwards the main
| army reached the rayine through which They APP
preached the fort, the provincial troops being II a.
vance found ranged on either sdeof theroad pealed
sticks driven into the gronnd and upon each was
fastened the head and kilt Of Highlander inns
was meant in savage derisi0u oil the scotch hat-
: talions whom the Indians styled s'petucoat war;
| riors.
a When the Highland troops beheld this CHASTITY
L exhibition first a low murmur and then q fierce
a and terrible yell ran along the column. muskefs
were thrown away, and, as by one wild impulse
. | every broadswerd flashed from the seabhara, ant
l. | with nm mpetuous rush they pressed onward Il
wreak vengeance upon the insulting Zoe. but !
| was too late as they neared the smoking ruins o
y the fort the last hatteaux and canoes were seel
' pushing from the Shore bearing down the 0hii
| The shattered remnants both of French and lndial
power, never more to be restored to the valley o
La Bette hictefe
WEELINGFoNts FIGHTING Demonstration tn
4 late Mrs. Caroline Jane Iouden the botanical wri
ter wrote to Apsley House for permission to Sc
e the remarkable beech grove at Strathfieidsage
forming the Waterloo avenue, and presenting p
finest specimens Of the arbor fagus in England, sh
= briefly asked in her note TO see bis Graees Water
II loo beeekes, the signature being j. Z. London
N whereupoP his Grace dispatched the known reply
n addressed to the Right Reverend DR.. Bloomfield, G
ID u LondoLA installing the signature, and contount
1 ing a iig tree with beeeh: II NJ Duke OF We
ar liarton's coma ments to the Bishop of London:
told by his body sesvsnt that the trousers worn
Waterloo were given away many years ago 10 "
Haydon the painter, at the request OF that ses3El
man, who may possibly have them still
= July I'll, 1855. IGlobeis Paris Corres't.s
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