The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-06-24
The Battle of Bunker Hill.

will not try TO tell over again the
story of the battle, for it is in every
school history. 1t is enough now to
know that at one o'clock the British
army landed in good order at Moul-
tons Point, and immediately formed
in three lines, while the barges re-
turned to Boston for more troops,
4 yhe, u~si>roa 1T ta.ee, that tho Bri.
ish, some three thousand strong,
advanced upon the American works;
| that they were driven back with fear
/ fnI slaughter; that they advanced
no ain. with the flames of the burning
town 20 veil their movements, and
were again repulsed; that they rallied
again with reinforcemcnts against the
Americans, who were not only worn
duwn with labor and fasting, but out
ol ammunition; and at about five
O'Clock, after this bloody conflict of
an nour and a half with raw vo!un-
tcers, these picked soldiers Of the
British army took possession Of the
hill that had served them Tor re-
treat on the famous 10Th of April,
with more than Il thousand dead and
wounded as the price Of their victory,
among these 229 being among the
killed. The Americans had 40
killed. ~ wounded, and 80 captured.
or III in all, in a force probably not
exceeding fifteen hundred men actn-
ally engaged. The British, by the
most truthful accounts, had less than
four thousand men engaged on the
field, according to Mr.. Richard Froth-
ingham's excellent history of the bat
tie, but he apparently does not in
clule the sailors and gunners in the
British ships who were SO active III
the fight, aud who killed the first
American in the fort.
That was sad evening for Boston
and ail I'll people around it. The
sun that went down in splendor be-
hind the ruins of that burned town,
after that day of summer loveliness,
shone upon a Golgotha Of death.
British and Americans who had been
in arms against each other were one
now in the pain Of wounds, the agony
of bereavement, and the need of TIE
Divine Comforter. The chimes of
Christ Church did not probably ring
out after the din of battle had ceased
and night came on, but they must
have tolled when Major Pitcairn's
body WAS brought there for the burial
service, and inferred under the
church. He was d brave and kindly
man, who has apparently been mis-
understood, and identified with acts
Of atrocity which he abhorred. His
name heads the large list of British
| officers who were killed or wounded
in the battle-thirteen killed and
seventy wounded, proportion SO
large as to put this battle on foot
ing with the carnage of Quebec and
of Minden. The losses on the Amer
lean side were not SO many nor SO
conspicuous; but one man fell whose
death was life to his companions and
his cause, and, with all allowance for
local and personal friendship and
patriotic exaggeration, there is no
doubt that when DR.. Joseph Warren
died, New England liberty had its
martyr, and America had hero who
fought for her thenceforth with
| weapons that are not carnal, and with
| valor that knows no WEAKNESS, and
wants no food or clothing or arms.
Warren was noble man, and did
great deal for the patriot cause, but
his life and his death meant more
than he or any body else knew at the
time. He was, as we shall see, text
out of the book of humanity and of
God that history was then enrolling.
DR.. Samuel Osgooa, IN Harper's
Wdyaziae for Jsty.