The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-08-04

Ii may be interesting TO know that there
were Zoaayes in the War OF Independence
The New York Post publishes an extract of a
letter, written by young soldier ia the Goa
nec,icut army to his parents, which follows,
stating the fact:
"Dear Parents-Our company arrived here
last night very late. hungry aud tired. Train
ing is good deal harder than old Squire Fell
tells Of If he'd marched fourteen miles day
for three days and carried his prog, besides
fathers Did French war fussee, 1 calculate
he'd not been so encouraging to us boys.
don't find fault mind | only wish to let you
knew that we are not on May party.
AT Milford tavern We were Joined by two
companies of soldiers from New Haven and Il
com pany OF queer fellows as Jake calls
them, from the Southern Colonies. They are
rifemen, and are commanded by Col. Cresap
They don't use any beds. as we do, but sleep
right on the ground, all in row, like Indians
do, But their antics in military exercise
are OF the curiousest kind. They load and
fire their rifles lying fiat on their bellies Al
ter that they tangle themselves all up In
knot, and look just like porcupine, with their
guns sticking out all over them. But the won
dermost part OF their actions Is ter hitting
mark. ANY one of them can hit small potato
at forty rods distance. You never saw any
thing like it, When We get to camp l Will
write more about these rihemen, who would
amuse the girls If they could see them cut
their ntics."
The company described in this letter is also
all AIDED to in Moore's Diary of the Revolu-
tion, as follows:
AUGUST 7, i775.-On Friday evening last
arrived at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on their
way TO the American camp, Captain Cresap's
company OF riliemeD, consisting of one hun
dred and thirty active, brave Young fellows
many of whom have been in the late expedi-
tion under Lord Duumore against the In
dians. They bear in their bodies visible marks
OF their proweSs, aud show scars and wounds
which would do honor to Homer's Had
They show you, TO use the poets words
"'Where the CORD battle bled at every veinv
"One of the warriors in particular shows
the cicatrices of four bullet holes through his
body. These men have been bred in the woods
10 hardships and dangers from their infancy
They appear as II they Were entirely unac-
quairteu with, and had never felt, the nassiop
of fear. With their rifles III their hands they
assume kind OF omnipo:ence o5er their enc
mics. One cannot much wonder at this when
We mention fact which can be fully attested
by several of the reputable persons who were
eye-WItnesSes Of IL. Two brothers in the
company took piece of board fye inches
broad and seven inches long, with a bit Of
white paper, about the size of q dollar
nailed In the centre, ard while one of them
supported this board parpendicularly be-
tween his knees, the other, at a distance OF
upwards of sixty yards, and without any
KIND OF rest, shot eight bullets through ii
successfully, and spared a broIher's high.
AAhcNiiSi VI IHc Helu Il ClTFeI SI3YS
perpendicuiarly III his hands with one edge
close 10 his side, while one OF MS comrades At
Tue same distance, and in the manner before
mentioned, shot several bullets through it,
without any apprehension of danger on ri thel'
side. Ihe spectators, appearing To re amazed
at these feafs, were told that there were up
wards OF fifty persons in The same company
VINO could do The same thing; that there was
not one who could not plug nineteen bullets
our OF twenty, as they termed it, within an
iAch OF the head OF tenpenny nail. In short
10 eVInce the confidence they possessed ia their
deXterIty with these kinds OF arms some of
them proposed TO stand with apples on their
heads, while Others, at the same distance un .
0ertoOk 10 shoot them Off; bat the people " no
saw the other experiments declined To be wit
neSSes of this
AT night great fire was kiudled around 2
pole planted IN The COprt-House Square where
the Company, WIN the Captain al their head,
all naked To the waist, and painted like sa, :
ages, except the Captain, who was in an Indian
shirt, !ndElEed vast tcOnc0urse of people with
perfect exhibition Of a war dance and all he
manuuyres OF Indians holding council. going
10 war, ,cIrcumventing their enemies by deGles
ambuscades, attacking, scalping, ana SO forth
II Is SAID by those who are Judges that no rep
resentalion could possibly come nearer the
Original. The Captains eXpertuess and agility.
III particular, IN these experiments as ton shed
every beholder. This morning they Will SET
out on their march for Gam BRIDGE