Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-27

enlist ourselves or engage to stand IN |
readiness at moments warning, equip |
ped according to law, with six days pro-
visions, ready to march wherever called
for in the New England states, to which
we promised obedience to our officers.
We engage to stand ready till the 24th
of September next. Enoch Chase" and
13 others. Stark's name was tower
of strength in New Hampshire, and his
officers and men were in great measure
select citizens, owners of the soil, good
men and true. Brigade Chaplain Hub.
bard was graduate Of the second class
of Dartmouth college, a future governor
and chief justice of the state. jeremiah
Smith had his gun-stock broken and
face grazed by musket ball at Ben
nington. The members of several COM
panies were neighbors, friends and rela-
tives from the little town of Salisbury,
N. H. With only 100 rstable polls,
92 were in the conflict. Their captain
was the father of Daniel Webster.
Among them were schoolmater, Ed
ward Evans, Dea. Benjiman Huntoon,
Representative Mathew Pettengill, Sc
lectmen Ardent Pettengill and others
of the same quality. This one family
of Pettengill sent to the battle three
brothers and a sisters's husband. My
great-grandfather, one of them, died of
his wounds. So in Vermont five sons
of Jonas Fay were there, one of them
slain. Massachusetts sent lawyers,
physicians, judge and fighting par
son. It was the best blood of these
states.
While this commotion was formenting
in the states, Burgoyne was happy and
easy. He ordered feu-de-jole in honor
of his victory on the very day on which
Schuyler was declining to furnish a
soldier or musket to defend Vermont.
Instead of pushing on by Lake George
and the old road, he halted. at White
hall, while his troops cut their way
through the dense forest, made 40 bridg-
es in the 16 miles and two miles of
log-work over one morass. 1t may have
been, as he claimed. his best course, but
his need of supplies became early appar-
ent, and, about the 1st of Aug, the
troops were all designated for Baum's
expedition. They did not march until
the 18th. Those ten or twelve days Of
delay lost his only chance of success,
for the other John never loitered five
days after he was notified of his APP
pointment He appeared in Charles
town in advance of his instructions. He
was forwarding troops to Vermont, wait
ing the enemy and looking up his sup
plies. 1t would be amusing, were it
not distressing, to read of his difficulties
detained for want of bullet moulds,
as there is but one pair in town, vainly
endeavoring to get four cannon mount
ed, finding third of the powder worth
less, in want of kettles, pals, spirits
and even sealing wax and pepper, but
he makes no apologies or complaints,
utters no doubt or fears. As fast as
his men come in squads, he sends them
along. Just as soon as the bullets were
run Stark and his men went off at the
enemy. He comes in sight at Manches-
ter, receiving orders to JOIN Schuyler
and fatty refusing to abandon Vermont.
By two felicitous mistakes, one when
Congress ignored him and one
when New Hampshire gave him indie
pendent command, he was free to follow
his own sagacity. He chose a course
for which Washington had hoped the
enemy would give the opportunity, and
, he fulfilled the prophecy of former years
that powerful army would come from
the north, which he with the Greer
mountain boys, would cut off wing b.
wing.
concluded next week.