The Granite Monthly Volume 12 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ... He marched quickly to Charlestown Neck, where another New Hampshire regiment, under Reid, of Fitzwilliam, joined him. The British men-of-war and floating batteries were sweeping the narrow pass with their deadly fire. Two regiments, earlier on the march, were halting for fear of the canonade. McClary went forward from Stark's side, and said to the colonels, --" If you are not going to move forward, I wish you to open ranks and let our regiments pass," which they immediately did, and Stark's men repulsed the flow of the invading army, until Prescott and his men in the redoubt could withdraw from the fight. Then the men of New Hampshire covered the retreat of their comrades, bringing with them the body of McClary, slain in the front rank. Again the historian Snds Stark at Trenton, where Washington made his desperate venture against the Hessians of Cornwallis. Six weeks after that brilliant action, Sullivan, who led the vanguard under Washington's eye, wrote to the governor of New Hampshire, --" No men fight better or write worse than our Yankees. General Washington made no scruple to say publicly, the remains of the eastern regiment were the strength of his army;--he calls them to the front when the enemy are there; he sends them to the rear when the enemy threatens that way. Believe me, sir, the Yankees took Trenton before the other troops knew anything of the matter; more than that, there was an engagement." These Yankees were 600 men from New Hampshire, the remnant of four regiments. Belittling Stark's gallant conduct and bis seniority of rank, a congressional cabal promoted his junior, and the veteran threw up his commission. New Hampshire men are not always submissive. But hardly had he reached his farm on the Merrimack when Burgoyne's...