Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-08-14
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ofh'S 1862
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Schuyler returning to Fort Edward,
G. Clair employs several hundred soldiers
~ hurry on the Notifications, under the
.nneryision of the Industrious Pole, Thad-
ia n Kosciuszko-who with the rank of
I,ept. COL was assistant engineer in the
Northern Department.
Placed in Fort--which the nation
ondly believed to be impregnable-with
force consisting of twelve regiments,
oreraging little over two hundred effective
mon each-two of which regiments were
Mas. militia-encumbered with over five
hundred sick-ordered 10 defend defective
works, which, if completed, required, in
the opinion of Gates and Schuyler, ten
to.twelve thousand men, none of whom
should be militia - having reported the
rlgce to be misunderstanding no au-
iLority from Congress TO vacate the place
and no promise OF reintorcements, st.
Clair has no alternative but to work with
Al his strength and bravely meet his fate
The old French lines at Ticonderoga
bad been materially augmented, and the
whole were connected by floating
b-Ige, boom and chain nearly one
quarter OF a mile long, with Mount indie
p4ndence, high, circular, stony hill, sit
uated in Orwell, VT, with stockaded star
fort on its summit partially out of repair,
battery on its side, and other works
at its foot.
St. Clair hearing from "Hoite of Otter
Greek that a party of the enemy had
taken pair of oxen from one of the in
habitants and driven them to two miles
/ above Mddlebury Falls, and there ate
/ them,-on the 9th of June sends out
Col. Seth Warner TO rouse the settlers on
/ Otter Creek to drive back these marau-
ders and then reinforce Ticonderoga. On
/ the Goth of June Commissary Yancey
sends to Ticonderoga twenty cattle bought
| by him at Pa,tlea and the next day sends
over thirty bought by Commissary Avery
! at Manchester.
Meanwhile Stellar is sorely perplexed
/ as to the number and designs of the enc
my by the contradictory reports, OF his
scouts, sent down each side of and upon
the Lake, and Of the prisoners and spies
from Canada.
] Henry Brockholn Livingston-twenty
years later Judge of the Supreme Court
/ ot the United States, then in the Goth year
| of his age, with the rank of Lieut.. Col, Aid
| 10 Schuyler, whom he had accompanied
/ 10 Ticonderoga-writes to Schuyler eve
cannot see that they the enemy have
brought many regulars with them. At
least, the number of red coats in the boats
i very small" q cannot
put esteem myself fortunate that indispo-
fition prevented any returning with you,
b it has given me an opportunity Of be-
ing present at battle, in which ] promise
|nyself the pleasure Of seeing our army
flushed with victory"
St, Clair, having sent his son to Lake
George, at last sees the British army APP
proach, filling the forests with their bril-
liant uniforms, glittering steel and waving
pumes, and waking the long slumbering
echoes of wood and lake with the stirring
sounds of
Trump and drum and roaming culve in"
Many of sick, and all of the stores
Remaining at the Landing on the north
lend of Lake George, having been sent
south, St. Clair, on the I'd day of July,
burns the block-house, saw-mills and other
works at the Landing, and then in help
pess impotence is obliged-by the weak.
mess of his garrison-to remain within his
Hines, and without the power to prevent it,
see the enemy plant battery after battery
IN positions only half mile distant, and
tnllrely commanding his own Notifications
the American cannonading meanwhile
30 innocent, the British do not even reply
10 it.
Il A Convention had been called, to meet
gat Windsor, on the I'd day of July, l777.
10 frame Constitution for the new State
Not Vermont, which had declared itself free
and independent on the 18th day Of jan
auary previous "a date which am asham.
ed to say, is almost unknown TO and ut
Nterly unhonored by Vermonters-and if il
be proper for so recent a member of 81
venerable Society," would suggest
THAT Hereafter, when convenient, the win
ter sessions of the Society be called, so a:
70 commemorate the date of our State'
Declaration of Independence-at which
time paper Illustrating that hitherto-ob
#scurely-known event, might be very prop
erly read.
Col. Warner, having left Ticonderogs
&for the Green Mountains, as before men
%tioned, let us so far follow him as to reat
Ia letter written by him TO that Conven-
tion. - =.
COPY OF COL, SETH WARMERS LETTER.
E# RUTLAND THE ID OF July, 1871.
F 10 the Hon Generation noe sitting at Windsor, 4
{# hs State Of Vermont v-s 4
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