Reminiscences of the Last Sixty-Five Years, Vol. 2 of 2

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Excerpt from Reminiscences of the Last Sixty-Five Years, Vol. 2 of 2: Commencing With the Battle of Lexington, Also, Sketches of Hos Own Life and Times There is no faculty of the mind, in my opinion, so important as a good memory, in fact, without it, we learn but little, and retain but a small portion of that, how far I am possessed of that faculty these Reminiscences must decide. Circumstances of a domestic character I remember from the age of less than two years and a half, the first thing of general interest is the extraordinary deep snow in January, 1780, a period long remembered for the severity of the cold, as well as the depth of the snow, which was six feet deep upon a level. The severity and suffering of that winter, can never be forgotten while there survives a soldier of that army who were exposed to its inclemency, half fed, and worse clothed, fighting for that freedom we now enjoy, unmindful of its cost. There is no parallel to their sufferings, except in the mad expedition of Napoleon to Russia, and that exceeded in numbers only, not in suffering. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.