Memoir of Gen. William HullDavid Clapp & Son, 1893 - 24 strani |
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Stran 6 - When we left the Highlands, my company consisted of about fifty, rank and file, I found that there was not more than one poor blanket to two men; many of them had neither shoes nor stockings; and those who had, found them nearly worn out. All the clothing was of the same wretched description. These troops had been about a year in service, and their pay was still due them, yet their privations and trials were only equalled by their patience. In a noble spirit of patriotism, they served their country...
Stran 4 - On the morning of his execution," continued the officer, "my station was near the fatal spot, and I requested the Provost Marshal to permit the prisoner to sit in my marquee, while he was making the necessary preparations. Captain Hale entered; he was calm, and bore himself with gentle dignity, in the consciousness of rectitude and high intentions. He asked for writing materials, which I furnished him; he wrote two letters, one to his mother and one to a brother officer.
Stran 8 - American army went into winter quarters at Valley Forge, about twenty miles from Philadelphia. The...
Stran 4 - I think I owe to my country the accomplishment of an object so important, and so much desired by the Commander of her armies — and I know no other mode of obtaining the information than by assuming a disguise and passing into the enemy's camp.
Stran 19 - General Hull ; stating that he needed neither men nor supplies, and that the British might have been defeated with ease. This letter, endorsed by the government, had its effect upon the public, which did not know that Cass had written to Gov. Meigs of Ohio and others, a few days before the surrender, appealing for help, stating that the army was in want of everything, and must perish unless soon assisted. As soon as General Hull was exchanged he was put under arrest, with charges of capital offences...
Stran 5 - But a few persons were around him, yet his characteristic dying words were remembered. He said, ' I only regret. that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Stran 4 - He was graduated at Yale, AB 1772, studied law at Litchfield and was admitted to the bar in 1775. He was captain of a company of militia recruited just after the battle of Lexington and marched from Derby to Cambridge, where General Washington assigned the company to Colonel Webb's Connecticut regiment. He recruited the 8th Massachusetts regiment, was promoted major, and was ordered to the command...
Stran 23 - ... great trees for them to gather. In the last visit of Lafayette to America he visited General Hull, and the meeting (witnessed by the writer) of these veteran soldiers of the revolution was interesting. The Marquis embraced his old comrade, and said, among other words of gracious welcome : "We have both suffered contumely and reproach, but our characters are vindicated ; let us forgive our enemies and die in Christian peace and love with all mankind.
Stran 18 - Moumouth, and other places, and led regiments and battalions in most of these battles. * * * * Is it likely, therefore, that he should have been the only man in his army disabled by fear from fighting General Brock ? What, then, were his reasons as given by himself? General Hull was now in the position in which, as he had stated to the administration before the war, Detroit must fall. His communications to Ohio were cut off by the Indians in the woods; his communications by the lakes were cut off...
Stran 21 - Hull and his opponents, nor to revive a subject which, for the credit of the country, had better be forgotten than remembered ; yet, if we were to judge simply by the public documents collected and published in these Memoirs, we must draw the conclusion, unequivocally, that he was required by the General Government to do, what it was morally and physically impossible that he should do...