The palmetto herald. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1864-1864, 1864-12-29
A NEW ANECDOTE OF WASHING.
TON.

A NEW ANECDOTE OF "ASAAa~.
TON.
It is we'll known that Col. Seth War
ner. of revolutionary memory, who, with
his noted regiment of Green Mountain
Bows as rear guard of st. Glars retreat
inc army, after the evacuation OF Iicon-
deroga, beat back whole brigade of the
hotly-pursuing British, in the battle OF
Hubbardstowu, and thus saved, proba-
hly. that luckiess Generals entire forces,
hurrying on Just in front, nom rout or
captureowho came down like thunder
holt on the flushed foe in mid-battle at
Bennington, and secured the victory for
the wayering and halfbeaten Stark, and
who finally was everywhere known as
one of the best-looking, most heroic and
accomplished officers OF the Cumperiana
Army-that Col. Warner was an especial
iayorite of Gen. Washington. p
The preliminary, however, Is here IN
tsduced less on account Of any particu-
lar pertinancy most oft may have to the
subject than for for the purpose OF expla-
nation, and securing reader apprecia-
ton and credence of the interesting per-
sonal anecdote which is about to be rela-.
ted. and which, it is confidently believed,
has never before appeared in print.
One son of Col. Warner still survives,
or was surviving few years ago, an un-
pretending resident of Lower Canada,
from which-though then seventy-fve
wears old, but very active, and in full pos
session of all his strong native faculties
he came to the capital of Vermont
with the object of petitioning the Legis-
lature for compensation for some lands
formerly granted to the heirs of Col War
ner, but unwittingly trenched upon by
subsequent grants and 1t was there and
then that the writer Of this reminiscence
was introduced to him, and held several
very interesting conversations.
In one of these conversations, while
speaking of the private affairs of his faith
er. Colonel Warner. he frankly said that
the Colonel was very thoughtless about
pecuniary matters; that he not only ex-
pended in the cause Of the country, or
aiding the needy families of his soldiers,
all his available property, but contracting
many debts, which finally compelled him
a short time before his death, to place q
mortgage on his homestead, amounting
at least to over nine hundred dollars, and
causing the family great deal of depres-
sion and uneasiness. But Of this depress-
ing load they were at length suddenly
relieved In the occurrence of most un-
expected incident, and one which formed,
as well it might, quite an era In the fam
ily history. But we will let Mr.. Warner,
whose Christian name, we believe, was
shat of his father, Seth, relate the memo
rab;e incident in question in his own Ian
guage; which, by the aid of the minutes
before us we know we can repeat sub
stantially, and We think very near literal
ly, as he made use of it.
'It was" he said, lin the month Of
September, 1889, the fall that General
Washington made his tour through the
Eastern States. We had kept ourselves
tolerably well posted about the progress
of this tour, and heard that he was to be
in New Haven or Hartford, Connecticut,
somewhere near the time at which the
event I am going to relate to you took
place. But as either Of those places was
quite number Of miles from Woodbury.,