Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-11-13

the part borne by the British Men-of-
war in cannonading Charlestown and
the redoubts.
The sight of the old field aroused |
a desire to draw nearer to that histor-
ic June day and especially to hear
the British side of the story after hav-
ing heard for some As years the |
American version. In Boston such
a desire Is easily gratifed- There are
all the conveniences for learning
what happened a century or more
ago. In the neighborhood of the
state house exists a maze, a spider
web of short and narrow streets. The
streets end abruptly or take change
of direction and with it a change of
name. The brick buildings are very 4
narrow and high, with the look of an
old fashioned standing linen shirt
collar. These are the homes of soci-
cites devoted to the investigation and
preservation of all that is ancient, as
the Massachusetts Historical society
and the New England Historic-Gen-
ealogical society. The region, always
impressive, lis profoundly so on a
RAINY day, when the clouds hang low
and shadow of deepening twilight
fills the narrow thoroughfare. You
climb the outside steps of granite and
fight after fight of mahogana stair
cases, and pass through room after
room lined with books before you
come across a human creature. At
last you find venerable gentlemen
engaged with scrolls, charters, parch-
ments, catalogues and indexes.
They will not speak to you unless
you address them, but if spoken fair
will civilly answer in as brief phrase
; as is consistent with courtesy the
, questions you may have to ask. But
the experience is rather trying to a
party from the sun bright and breezy
: West. The rooms are so dark, the
5 leather and pare hment covered books
so rusty, and from the dark corners
! up under the ceiling, Cotton Mather
e and the 'old crowd'' look so grimly
q down. But you will find what you
I seek. Nowhere else in the United
+ States is there such a wealth Of his
: toric information stored for use. Any
h young fellow of New England ances-
h try can learn more about his own
! family than he ever knew before. 1t
4 was in such queer corners and in the
e state library, plain room, that en-
: quired for neWR from the battle Of
If Bunker Hill.
&c It seems to have been like A1issie4
# Ridge, a soldiers battle. It is still {
10 matter Of dispute who commanded
he the Americans and whether a fas
e was displayed on their works, but Tia,
* fighting proceeded all the same an(
u It was the bloodlest battle of the rev
: olutiOn. There was ranking gener
al somewhere about, whose name wa
Artemus Ward; everybody has for
gotten him, while everybody renleal
r bers Artemus Ward, the funny man
y For once the man who laughs ha
y the best OF It in the history book.
- The battle was S test as far as th
9 fighting qualities of the two armie
= were concerned, for the British troep
= engaged were the flower of the Brit
= ish army. It is said that no grea
: military genius was developed on e
ther side in the revolution but tii
= English general officers present How
Clinton, Burgoyne and Gage, were a
- good as they had. Clinton was on
of the very best. As to the rank an
= file Englishmen will recognize tn
regiments The list Of killed an
wounded shows that the whole c
II portions of the following regiment
Oh were present: The Fourth king
le own). FIFTH. Tenth, Fourteenth; Eigl
In teenth, Twenty-secopd, Twenty-Five
ne Twenty-ffth, Thirty-eighth, Forts
'p third, Forty-seventh, Fifty-seeonG
ut Fifty-ninth, Slxty-third and-Sixty
d seventh, beside the Royal Marine
u and the Light Artillery, twelve guns
re crossing to Charlestown-
81 As to the action itself the BIRTHS
IA accounts do not differ materiali
. from the American. The feature
~ :. were the landing of the British troop
Rbont noon, their two successiy
y charges pp the hill, ia which the
3 suffered frightfuily sRd gave ava,
u and their third assault, when the
pa carried the main redoubt. Somehod