The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-11-01


me Adjutant General Patterson, who
happened at that moment to be pass
ing by, and said to him passionately
Come and see for yourself these Off
GERS who have been wounded in the
common cause and who now are in
want of everything, because they do
not receive that which is due them. 1t
is, therefore, your duty to make a rep
resentation of this to the general The
result was that a quarter of an hour
afterward, General Burgoyne came to
me himself and thanked me very pa
thetically for having reminded him of
his duty"
Nevertheless, the vacillating Corn
wallis delayed until the Americans
overlook and encompassed the loiter-
ing force. and precipitated a skirmish-
ing attack and later a bombardment.
The baroness continues:
"My husband sent me message
telling me to betake myself forthwith
into a house which was not far from
where we had halted. I seated my
self in the calash, with my children,
and had scarcely driven up to the
house when | saw on the opposite side
of the Hudson river five or six men
with guns, which were aimed at us.
Almost involuntarily I threw the chill
dren on the bottom of the calash and
myself over them. At the same in
slant the churls fired and shattered
the arm of poor English soldier be-
hind US, who was already wounded
and was also on the point of retreat
ing into the house.
A Cellar Refuge.
Immediately after our arrival
frightful cannonade began, principally
directed against the house in which
we had sought shelter, probably be-
cause the enemy believed, from seeing
so many people fiocking around it, that
all the generals made it their head
quarters. Alas! it harbored none but
wounded soldiers or womenI We were
finally obliged to take refuge in Gel
lar, in which l laid myself down in a
corner not far from the door. My
children laid down upon the earth with
their heads in my lap and in this man.
ner we passed the entire night"
AS matter of fact, the refugees
were destined to spend six days and
nights underground, undergoing perils
and hardships which multiplied with
the passing hours.
On the next morning, for instance,
the cannOnade was renewed by the
Revolutionists. Says the baroness:
"Many persons who had no right to
come in, threw themselves against the
door. My children were already I'M
der the cellar steps and we would all
have been crushed if God had not CIV
en- me strength to place myself before
the door and with extended arms pre-
vent all from coming in; otherwise ev-
cry one of us would have been severe
ly injured. Eleven cannon balls went
through the house and we could plain
ly hear them rolling over our heads.
One poor soldier, whose leg they were
about to amputate, having been laid
upon a table for this purpose, had the
other leg taken off by another can
non ball in the very middle of the op-
Grafton. His comrades all ran off,
and when they again came back they
found him in one corner of the room,
where he had rolled in his anguish,
scarcely breathing.
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tinued, we at last found a soldiers
wife who had the courage to bring
water from the river, for no one else
would undertake it, as the enemy shot
at the head of every man who ap-
preached the river. This woman,
however, they never molested; and
they told US afterward, that they
spared her on account of her sex.
Nursing the Wounded.
"The wife of Major Harnage,
Madame Reynels, the wife of lieu
tenant, the wife of the commissary and
myself, were the only ladies who were
with the army. We sat together one
day in our cellar bewailing our fate,
when one came in, upon which they
all began whispering, looking at the
same time exceedingly sad. I noticed
this, and also that they cast silent
glances toward me. This awakened
in my mind the dreadful thought that
my husband had been killed. /
shrieked aloud but they assured me
that this was not so, at the same time
intimating to me by signs that it was