The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-06

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Lieth there
So cold!
REVOLUTIONARY WOMEN.
An Incident of Arnold's Disastrous Cam
paign into Canada.
Correspondence of the Boston Advertiser.
The first remarkable campaign of
the revolution, that against Canada,-
whose three hundred imprisoned
victims were released from Dauphin
jail one hundred years ago the 7th of
August.-was attended by women,
wives of both officers and privates.
Jemima Warner was the wife of
James Warner, a private in Captain
Smith S company of Daniel Morgan s
rifle corps. She appears to have been
native Of Lancaster, Pa, from which
place she followed her husband to the
north, and Joined him at Prospect
Hill, Cambridge, in the fall of '76.
Morgan's riaemen, who served in
the expedition to Canada, were mostly
first-class soldiers, and always honored
themselves in the posts of daring and
danger, where they were sure to be
placed, but Warner, though a fine
looking, athletic man, and ordinarily
brave enough, possessed none of the
qualities demanded in extraordinary
emergencies. If any man ever need
ed in hardship constant companion
superior to himself, it was Private
James Warner, and such a companion
was his wife Jemima. She is describ-
ed as beautiful, and gifted with the
personal characteristics of a true
heroine. That she has a heroic spirit
her demeanor amply testifes, through
all the romantic and tragic campaign
which she accompanied him as soldier s
wife and vivandiere.
Arnold's march through the woods
of Maine was fearfully difficult, and
attended by misfortunes, delays and
losses which would have discouraged
any but the bravest and mostly hardy
and determined. Floods, and winter s
cold and famine, reduced the strength
Of the men and tried their fOrtitude to
the utmost, and in the severest suffer-
ing one of the few whose soldiership
failed to stand the test was Private
Warner.
Morgan's troops, who formed the
advance of the ssArmy of the Wilder.
ness,' had assembled the Dead river
with incredible labor and hardship,
and crossed the highlands into the
Canadian frontier, 100 miles from
Quebec, with their last rations in their
knapsacks, when their passage was
obstructed by vast swamp or bog,
overflowed with water from two to
three feet deep. Smiths and Hen
bricks companies reached it first, and
halted to wait for stragglers. Mrs.
Warner came up with another woman,
the wife Sergt. Grier of Hendricks.
as much a heroine as herself, though
less unfortunate in her experience.
The soldiers we're about entering the
pond (which was partly frozen), break
ing the ice with their gun-stocks, the
women wading in courageously with
the rest, when some one shouted.
'sWhere's Warner!" Jemima had not
noticed her husbands disappearance
from the file, and now, when his name
was called, she started back.
Our voices answered s'IIe's laid
down under a tree and won't come
along.' Poor Jemima already knew
well enough, and to her sorrow, what
was meant. Her James was no more
enfeebled in body than many of the
other men, but his fortitnde had given
out. Begging his comrades to wait
awhile, she hurried back from the
marsh to find him and urge him on.
But an hour passed, and his company
marched without him. Unhappy War.
ner! Utterly wanting in the thrifty
forethought which is so necessary an
element of endurance and resolution in
extremity, he had eaten all his food,
that should have lasted him two days.
Knowing that the supplies Of the army
were exhausted, his faint heart saw no
hope ahead. He sat down to die. This
was not the first time he had done the
same--or threatened to. All the way
up the Dead river or, at least, from
the day provisions began to be scarce,
he was the same improvident laggard.
He must either gormandize or starve;
and at every doing out of rations, as
the supplies grew scantier, he would eat
all his portion at one meal, and as soon
as he felt hungry again, sit down to
die. His brave wife had a sad trial
with him. Familiar with his failing
she was in the habit of boarding food,
the price of her own secret HASTINGS.
against such needs as this; and for
several days her prudence and her ex-
ample and her encouragement had
alone kept the man on his feet. She
now exerted herself to the utmost to
rouse him and induce him to press on
and join his comrades.
But it was long before she prevailed,
and when at last they started again, the
whole armv had gone on. and their