The Real Benedict Arnold
- ISBN-10
- 1230250999
- ISBN-13
- 9781230250991
- Series
- The Real Benedict Arnold
- Pages
- 42
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-09
- Publisher
- Theclassics.Us
- Author
- Charles Burr Todd
Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... bee, and up that stream as far as Gardiner, thirty-eight miles, to which point it was navigable for sloops, there build batteaux, load them with the baggage and stores, and continue the voyage in them, following the route before laid out. Washington, after studying the matter closely, consented. The expedition was got ready with great secrecy and the utmost celexity for September had already come, and the army must thread the wilderness before the Northern winter set in, or the results would be lamentable. Only picked men were selected, --the very flower of the army, --and Arnold's reputation as a fighting man was so high, they were glad to go under him. It is a little remarkable how many of them later rose to eminence in public life. Aaron Burr, "an amiable youth of twenty," just out of Princeton College, who rose from a sick bed to volunteer, was afterward Vice-President: his classmate and chum, Matthew Ogden, attained eminence both as lawyer and in public life. A classmate of both was the Rev. Samuel Spring, chaplain of the corps, later a celebrated divine of Newburyport, Mass. Dr. Isaac Senter, the surgeon, became a leading physician in Newburyport, R. I. Private John J. Henry, a lad of sixteen, but a man in endurance and mettle, became an eminent lawyer in Pennsylvania and Judge of the County Courts. Dr. Senter kept a diary, and Judge Henry late in life wrote an account of the expedition, which we shall follow closely in describing it. Capt. Henry Dearborn became general, congressman, and Secretary of War under Jefferson. Capt. Daniel Morgan, who commanded the rifle corps, was later the famous partisan ranger of Saratoga, Virginia, and the Carolinas. The field officers were Lieut.-Col. Christopher Greene of Rhode Island, Col. Roger...
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