White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-03-02
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try to be as brave as you are. could
throw myself down and weep but I
will not. will stand up straight and
look at you as If / had heart of
stone. Then shall think of your
courage and with the Lords help /
will try to initiate It,"
When he left, the setting sun was
shining on her face and form. The
| picture and her words were being
branded upon his memory, as he drove
down into the deep Swallowed valley
where night was falling. He felt an
| Overwhelming sense of loneliness.
1.-THE war may go on for years, for
many years." he muttered, "and any
day we may move or may be sent
to some distant place."
When he returned Washington and
the staff were in conference. He
went into the library to sit down and
recall the enchantment he had felt
there. The night was chilly and fire
was blazing in the crate. Lady Wash
ington found him alone-a detected
figure gazing into the fire.
"My boy" she said, "let me look
into your face. Yes, I thought so.
know right well how you feel. I've
been to Sorrowtown myself. You need
to be cheered up"
She rang the bell and sat down be-
side him with her knitting. When the
servant came she ordered supper to be
brought to the young man with tea
and pint of claret.
Sitting in her armchair she told him
stories Of her girlhood and first-loves
in remote Virginia and by and by sent
him away to bed cheered and re-
freshed by her motherly Kindness
The next day he went back to his
company. News Of his exploit had
travelled through the camp. To his
surprise he soon learned that he was
probably the most popular man in the
regiment. Within week company
which had lost its captain elected him
to the place.
Captain Farnsworth said that the
only way to punish a man like that
was to kill him. 1t seemed to be SO.
The New England brigades were In
a failing spirit. Reorganization was
under way. Officers about to be dis
charged were trying to dissuade their
men from service. Colin, Amos and
band Of strong-armed fellows sought
them out and gave them warning.
Connecticut regiments would have no
Massachusetts soldier in their ranks
and those Of Massachusetts would
have neither Connecticut men nor
Rhode Islanders. Colin was one of
committee of the brigades who en-
deavored to reconcile these rivalries
and jealousies. Only thirty-fve hun
dred men had enlisted for extended
service, and they demanded fifty fur
loughs to the regiment. The gentle
man of the iron will at general head.
quarters was in no way discouraged
by the chaos that surrounded him. In
Braddock's army he had found deep
understanding of the back country
home-lOvers.
At this time Colin writes in his
diary:
mo pay for anyone. Many of the
officers are discouraged. The men are
homesick and detected. They are all
needed on the farms. The call to go
is strong. The food Is poor and often
insufficient. There is not powder
enough for days fighting. Still the
army remains. I wonder at it."
Many Of the Connecticut troops
would not re-enlist, and they were
Kissed, pelted and hooted when they
left camp between long lines of men
who resented their conduct. Amos,
back in the crowd, yelled in his ring
ing voice, "Go home, We white-]ivered
clam-diggers! Go home We scare
faced mammy-suckers. an leave yer
country to the cutthroats in Boston"
An outburst of laughter, bitter and
derisive, followed the sally. This little
event helped the spirit of the camp.
There were many re-enlistments In the
days that followed.
Then Daniel Morgan arrived with
his Virginia Bushmen, famous regi
ment of sharpshooters. It was said
that every man Of them, riding at a
gallop, could hit tin cup fifty yards
away.
Colin had heard General Washing
ton tell of AIorg,n's exploits in Brad
docks army. A British officer had
insulted him. not realizing that a
WAGNER had any right to feel insulted.
Morgan resented his conduct. The
officer tried to run him through with
his sword. Morgan disarmed him and
gave him a severe drubbing. For this
he was condemned to suffer FIVE hum
dred lashes. Four hundred and fifty
were administered when the torture
deprived him of consciousness. He
was a man Of immense stature with
the vitality of bear or the cruel
punishment would have destroyed him.
1t had only chopped his back into
ridges and kindled an unquenchable
fire in his heart. He and his Bush
men had gone into camp near the
troops of Massachusetts,.