Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-10-08
against me, and asked me if | were gull

! answered Gully"
He then asked me how | came to break t
Captain Pray's orders. told him that t
when enlisted, enlisted to kill or take
all of the enemy | could, and | thought
that was a good time to go on shore and
fire.
| was sent to the Guard House to
await my punishment The next morn
ing, after roll call, was brought out to
receive my just due. The Adjutant took
his book and read the general orders for
the day, to which was added
BY his Excellency, Gen. Washing
ton, it is ordered that all prisoners, ex-
cepting criminals, be set at liberty, on
account of Lady Washington's birth
day"
This was at her request, and she al
ways did so on that day. So | was re-
leased from prison, and went back to my |
company.
We again took up our winter quarters
in West Point, that cold and frozen
place.
In the fall, we had to draw up or
wheel our chain from across the river,
and lay it up safe till the next spring,
and then it would have to be put across
again from West Point to Fort Constitu-
tion. This Fort was strong, and lay
within 20 feet of the water, and con-
/ tained ten or fifteen "a pound cannon.
In the spring when we put this chain
: across the river, we had high day, and
called it putting up the bars. 1t was
n made of square bars of iron, about two
o and half inches square the links were
three feet long, with the ends sharpened
t so that no shipping could get up or down.
r 1t was confined at each end by means
o of two. .....about forty feet square and
" made up of logs and filled in with stones,
v and on the. side of it from the river
lie was large white oak log, and the chain
was confined round it, so that it was i'm
a. possible to break it or get by it.
p 1t was this fall, in October think
At that Major Andre was taken. He was
ID brought to head quarters, examined, anc
found guilty. / saw him when he wa
Sc hung. | suppose that Judas of an Ar
Id mold led him into that scrape.
ny In the winter the snow came so dee
ay that no team or man could go anywher
or get ahead much. We were short q
*, provisions, and could not 60 for any
ne neither could any be brought to us. S
in we had twelve ounces pork, half pin
nd of peas, and one gill rum per day. w
As lived in this starved situation thirty tw
nd days. At last our officers told us ther
let were provisions at Fishkill, and if "
in could get them, we might have then
ed So we concluded to turn out and brea
he road we took shovels and went OIL
of some shoveling, and some treading dow
it the snow. One platoon would work {
gs, long as it could, and then another woul
ad take its place. In this way we made
road twelve miles, and obtained food.
led Once in three months General Was
till ington would inspect us. When this WI
done, he, and the other general office
Md were ON horseback, but Lady Washin
ak ton usually rode in her coach with fol-
ING horses, and walters fore and aft. Th
was in summer.
:, CHAPTER VI
'n' In the spring of 1881, General Lafa
ine ette had orders to take his brigade of i
fantry and march southwark to wat,
-" Corvallis motions. As | belonged
Gu his brigade, l had to go. We went
land through Philadelphia, and nul
:, ." ber of other large towns, to the head
= Elk. Here we embarked on board v,
-" sells and went down Chesapeake bay. 4
ter two or three days sail, we land
" with our brigade and company of hor
'"n near Corvallis army.
.P' + AS soon as he found us so near hi
'o he began pursuit, and we, not being al
,'A' to fight him, had to retreat.
He followed us so close that he Ike
'ino us ON the march night and day, SO tt
~ we had hardly time to cook what lit
i''n provisions we had with US, and then
had to eat it as we were marching.
apt They were very close on our re
pe when we came to large river that
!, as could not well ford ; SO we threw do
'rge the bridges, and this gave us time to r
VINO while they were making new ones,
men some mode to cross.
We placed our field pieces on the otl
tier, side, and annoyed them all that d.
my Finally, they brought heavier piet
7hen and then we retreated, and rested a {
e as or two, till they had crossed. Then
then run again for life.
with Sometimes each one of the regim
Pro- of horse, would take up another n
enth behind him, and come on after US,
t off when they overlook us they would pi
+, on battle with our rear, so as to hinder
and till their main body could come up "
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