Excerpt from The Nation's Grief: A Funeral Address, Before the Citizen of Burlington It is a dark December day. A deep snow clothes the ground. A sharp and cutting sleet drives with the wind. Against the blinding storm, and through the deepening drifts, a youthful soldier, with his knapsack on his back, pursues his steadfast way. A stripling of nineteen, of slender frame, and feeble health, he is an Ensign in the army of America, with Washington's commission; and he marches, with his small detachment, on his first service. ...
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Excerpt from The Nation's Grief: A Funeral Address, Before the Citizen of Burlington It is a dark December day. A deep snow clothes the ground. A sharp and cutting sleet drives with the wind. Against the blinding storm, and through the deepening drifts, a youthful soldier, with his knapsack on his back, pursues his steadfast way. A stripling of nineteen, of slender frame, and feeble health, he is an Ensign in the army of America, with Washington's commission; and he marches, with his small detachment, on his first service. It was a patriot and a Christian duty. There are those before me who remember well, what, in my young days, was yet a nursery-word, at which the mother pressed her infant to her bosom, and children gathered closer to the fire - st. Clair's defeat. It was to that battle-field, to inter the bones of its six hundred slain, that our young Ensign hastened with his troop. And though it was a patriot and a Christian duty, how much more sternly than the fiercest onset of the heady fight, must that still forest field, the lowering sky, the howling wind, those gallant men butchered by savage hands, and all the recollect-ions and fore bodings of that most disastrous day, have tried the spirit of a youthful soldier, on his first campaign! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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