Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-19

Not only Americans, but all the
world, holds in detestation and Justly
so. the name of Benedict Arnold, the
traitor, but one should defferentiate be-
tween Arnold the traitor and Arnold
the patriot, and Governor Baldwin of
Connecticut has done a real service in
the interests of what is fair and Just,
by showing upon more than one occa-
sion the difference between the Ben
edict Arnold that fought so bravely
for the colonies and the Arnold that
betrayed his country. Just before the
Revolutionary War Arnold was living
in New Haven and the newly organized
I'd Co, Governors Foot Guard, coneid-
cred him well enough equipped to be
their first commander and he was
elected captain, March il, 1775
Wnen the news of the battle of Lex
ington reached New Haven the newly
organized Guard was Immediately as
sembled and some 80 voted to march to
Boston to the assistance of their coun-
try. When Gen. Washington passed
through New Haven, July ?, 1875, while
en- route to take command Of the Cont
mental forces at Boston, the members
of tine Company, who had returned
from Boston and were in New Haven,
acted as his escort.
The I'd Co. Governors Foot Guard of
Now Haven, which visits Augusta.
Monday points with pride to the fact
that many OF the original members of
the organization were with Arnold
when he demanded and secured the
surrender OF Fort Ticonderoga and af-
forwards on his march through Maine
tn Montreal and Oupbar
The kennebec Expedition.
1t was in the fall of ITS that Arnold
desc ended the Kennebec on his cele-
brated expedition to Quebec in which
his own company played an important
part. The troops for the enterprise.
numbering in all 100, assembled a
NewburYpert and embarkinG in Il
transports sailed, Sept. 10. for Fort
Western on the Kennebee. The next
morning the expedition arrived IN the
river with the exception of some trans
ports. which had been separated during
q gale the preceding night. The flee,
without waiting their arrival, ascended
the river to Gardinerstown, where the
bateaux for the expedition were beins
constructed by Major Colburn and re-
manned until the 22d, when they were
joined by the missing vessels.
The Broad Bay. topsail schooner, in
which came Col. Arnold. the conf
mander, Rev. Samuel Spring. the chap
lain, DIR. Senter, the surgeon, and other
volunteers of distinction, now weighed
anchor and proceeded up to Fort
Western, leaving a number of men To
bring up the bateauX. The wind be-
ing unfavorable, the Broad Pay was
unable to reach Fort Western thai
evening. The next morning DR.. Senter
left the vessel and proceeded five miles
by land over untro6den paths to the
fort Arnold had preceded him on the
21st and established his headquarters
at James Howard's ct the Great
House, where he remained until the
29th. This James Howard was the ma
ternal greatgrandfather of Hon. w. IL.
Gannett. at whose home the I'd Co.
Governors Foot Guard viii be enter
tanned, Monday, after the exercises of
the dedication on the site of the south
ern blockhouse of Fort Western, of {.
tablet in memory of the Connecticut
soldiers, who persisted in the expedition.
At the "Great House."
DIR. Senter speaks of Judge Howard $
people in his account of the expedition