The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-22

along the route. Every household on the
road was reused. John Hancock and Sam
vel Adams were at Lexington, and were
raped up by Revere. Ebenezer Dorr,
another courier, appeared soon after with
this dispatch from Warren
IA large body of the Kings troops (sup.
posed to be brigade of about 1900 to 500
were embarked IN boats from Boston, ard
gone over to land in Lechmere's Point ESQ.,
called in Cambridge and that it was
shrewdly suspected that they were ordered
to seize aud destroy the stores belonging to
the colony deposited at Concord"
Hancock Immediately gave the alarm,
the village church bell rang out, and long
before dawn over a Hundred men, under
Capt. Parker, had assembled on the Lex
ington Common and answered the call of
the roll. After remaining about an hour,
and hearing nothing of the regulars, the
company was dismissed 18th orders to as
semble again at the beat OF the drum. 1t
was not long before the alarm called them
together again, and sixty or seventy of them
grasped their muskets aud We're hastily
formed in line. The British, under Major
Pitcairn, were soon espied coming up. Par
ker had ordered his men to load with DOW
der and bail, but in DO case to be the first
to fire. Pitcairn commanded the Americans
to lay down their arms and dispense No
one moved the British fired, seven of "the
rebels" fell dead, and nine were wounded.
A rand om discharge of muskets, but with
out effect was the answer of the patriots,
who then quickly dispersed. The regulars
gave three cheers. and in half an hour were
on their way to Concord.
TEE FIGHT AT CONCORD.
The scenes at Concold were in keeping
with those at Lexington. The militia there
had the alarm, and some 200 men were in
arms on the parade ground. When they
deserted the approaching column of the
British, and saw that they were largely
outnumbered, they fell back to neighUor-
ing hill, where Col. Barrett, their COM
mander, Joined them and awaited reinforce.
ments. Meantime the British, meeting no
resistance, entered the town and begun their
search tor stores. Steadily the minu c men
came in from the surrounding country to
recruit the little force of patriots, until they
numbered fully 400. They had not heard
positively what had been done at daybreak
at Lexington. but they saw the British
holding the bridge and pillaging the town,
and the impulse seized them to make re.
sistance. They pressed down the hill, the
British began to pull up the floor of the
bridge, fired shot or Two, then a volley
and two of the Americans fell dead. The
order to fire in return was given, and as it
was obeyed one of the regulars fell and
several were wounded. This was all there
was fthe battle of Concord Bridge. The
British fell back, spent half day IN raidlng
through the town. and then began the re-
turn march to Boston. 1t was thea that
the active work of the day begun. The
patriots hung upon the rear and flank of the
reVreating column, and at every defIe and
rayine, and from behind fences and trees.
picked the red-coats off at long range, and
by the time the British reached t1eir quar-
tiers from which they had started out so
boldly the night before, they had lost 273
men.
Such ars the events which are to be cale
DRAFTED at Concord and Lexington on Mon
Gay. AT Concord, where the statue of the
Minute-man is to be unveiled, Emerson is
to give an address, and George William
Curtis will be the orator of the day. AT
Lexington, Richard Fl. Dana, Jr., is to be
the principal speaker, while there will be
poems by Whittier and Julia Ward Howe.
and thus the greater Centennial Of 1876 will
be fifty ushered in.