An Accurate and Interesting Account of the Hardships and Sufferings of That Band of Heroes, Who Traversed the Wilderness in the Campaign Against Quebec in 1775 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from An Accurate and Interesting Account of the Hardships and Sufferings of That Band of Heroes, Who Traversed the Wilderness in the Campaign Against Quebec in 1775In the autumn of 1775, our adorableiva'smxd ton, thought it prudent to make a descent up on Canada. A detachment from the American grand army, then in the vicinity of Boston (mas cachusettjs, ) was organized, to fulfil this luten tion, by the route of the Kennebec and Chan disco rayon. It was intended as a cc - operation with the army of General Montgomery, who had entered the-same province, by the way of Cham -plaine and Montreal. Colonel Benedict Arnold was appointed the commander in chief of the whole division. The detachment consisted of calcium hundred men. Enos was second in command. Of this I knew nothing, but from re port. Hineman composed a part of the arma ment. These companies, from sixty-fivh to se venty-five stron were from the southward that is, captain fiauiel Mor an's company from Virginia, that of caputu illiam Hendricks' from Cumberland county in Pennsylvania, and captain Matthew Smith's company from the county of Lancaster, in the latter province. The residue, and bulk ofthis corps, consisted oftroops from Massachusetts, Rhodc-lsland and Connec ticut. It has ¿own from my memory, whether we had any from new-hampshire, but there is an impression on my mind that we had, as general Dearborne, who was if the latter pro vince, commanded a company in the expedition. Allthese men were of as rude and hard a race as ourselves, and as unused to the discip ine of a camp, and as fearless as we were. It fell to me to know many of them afterwards intimately, speaking generally, without any allusion to par ticulars, they Were an excellent body of men, formed by nature as the stamina of anarmy, fit -ted for a tough and tight defence of the liberties of their country. The principal distinction be tween na, was in our dialects, our arms, and our dress. Each man of the three companies, bore a ritie-barreled gun, a tomchawk, or small axe, and a long knife, usually called a scalp ing-knife, which served for all purposes, in the woods. Dis under-dress, by no means in a military style, was covered by a deep ash colored hunting-shirt, leggins and mockasins. If the latter could be procured. It was the sil ly fashion of those times, for ri¿emen to ape the manners of savages.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.