The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-08-19

mo woman to be victualled upon
the attachments that march tomorrow
and Thursday"
On June 18th men were sent ahead
to open the road to the Little Cross
ing and to prepare the fifth camp at
Shade Run in the Little Shades of
Death" On the following day, Thurs
day, General Braddock marched
from Little Meadows with the main
army.
In all its long history the Grants
vile neighborhood never saw before or
since such an imposing spectacle as
the march of Braddock's Army on
June 10, 1855, from Little Meadows
to Shade Run!
In the vanguard came in order a
squad of Light Horse, 80 sailors, 20
Grenadiers, cannon, the maiG body of
the vanguard. Then followed more can
non and two platoons of soldiers. Next
came the main body of the Army, con-
sisting of Halkett's and Dunbar's Di-
visions. Last in the line was the rear
guard-platoons and companies of SOL
diers, ending with squad of Light
Horse. On either side of the long COL
ums also marched through the woods
squads of ten to twenty soldiers
most of them Colonials-placed at
suitable distances to protect the Army
from a surprise attack. Slowly the
Army moved over Chestnut Ridge,
crossed the Little Youghiogheny (Cas-
selman) at the Little Crossings, then
over the hill on which Grantsville now
stands and down to the camp for the
night on Shade Run.
In the summer of 1855, Little Mea-
dows is referred to in the London
Gazette as follows:
Whitehall, August 26, 1855.
"By his Majesty's ship Sea Horse,
from Virginia, advice has been re-
ceived that Major General Braddock,
having advanced with 1000 men and
all the stores and provisions to the
Little Meadows, found it necessary to
leave the greatest part of the wag-
ons, &C., at that place, under the
command of Col. Dunbar, with a de-
tachment of 300 men, ordering him to
follow as fast as the nature of the
service would admit. The General by
this means lessened his line of march,
proceeded with great expedition; his
corps then consisted of about 1900
men and IL pieces of artillery, together
with the necessary ammunition, stores
and provisions :"
Of the 1900 soldiers, 456 were killed
in battle and many more were MORALLY
wounded, including General Braddock
| N. B. Craig, in his book, BRAD
docks Defeat" published in 1848, says
of Little Meadows:
"This interesting locality lies at
the west foot of Meadow Mountain. A
rude entrenchment, about half a mile
north of the Inn (the Stone House)
on the National Road, kept by Mr.
Huddleson, marks the site of the fort
This is most probably the field of a
skirmish spoken of in frontier history
between a Mr.. Paris with a scouting
party from Fort Cumberland, and a
Sieur Donville, commanding some
French and Indians, in which the
French officer was slain.
"The traditions is distinctly pre-
served in the vicinity and as
such, it possesses a classic interest
valuable in proportion to the scarcity
of such places"
Washington Again Visits Little
Meadows
In his journal of his trip to the
Ohio in ITO, Washington refers to
| Little Meadows as follows:
October 12-We left Killiam's early
in the morning, breakfasted at the
Little Meadows 10 miles off and lodged
at the Great Crossings (Somerfeld
Pa.) 20 miles further, which we found
tolerable days work. The country
we travelled over today was very
Mountainous and stoney, with little
good land, and that lying in spots"
There are some pretty fine farms
today in Garrett county on the "spots''
of good land which Colonel Washing
ton observed in ITO.
Returning east through Little Mea-
dows on November 26th, he wrote:
Reached Killiam's on Georges
Creek, where we met several families
going over the mountains to live, some
without having any places provided
The snow upon the Alligany Noun
tains was near knee Deep"
On his next trip to "the west" Wash
ington lodged, September 10, 1884, at
"Tumberson's" (Tomlinson's) at the
Little Meadows and breakfasted at
Mounts or Mountains" A man
named Mount then lived at Shade Run
on the site Of Braddock's fourth camp.
The TOmlinsOn's at Little Meadows
In 1850 Joseph Tomlinson surveyed
and ratentad at Chic Tordsbin,s Tand