Excerpt from Memoir of William Francis Bartlett Fourth Battalion went to Fort Independence. Boston Harbor, under the command of Stevenson, already commissioned as captain, and in ten days more promoted to the rank of major. Bartlett went with it, and remained with it there, with the exception of a two days' leave, till it returned to Boston on the 25th of May. He thought he did not enjoy his life at the fort, while he was there, but on his return he wrote: What have I gained during the last month? I have learnt more mil ...
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Excerpt from Memoir of William Francis Bartlett Fourth Battalion went to Fort Independence. Boston Harbor, under the command of Stevenson, already commissioned as captain, and in ten days more promoted to the rank of major. Bartlett went with it, and remained with it there, with the exception of a two days' leave, till it returned to Boston on the 25th of May. He thought he did not enjoy his life at the fort, while he was there, but on his return he wrote: What have I gained during the last month? I have learnt more mil itary than I could have learned in a year in the armory or from books I value the knowl edge acquired in the last month more highly than all the Greek and Latin I have learned in the last year I look back on the past month as one of the pleasantest and most useful that I remember. The martial fever was already seiz ing him. He returned to college when the Bat talion was dismissed, at the expiration of its tour of garrison duty, but he gave much time thence forth to drills, parades, and other military matters. On the 20th of June he writes: It is reported that an order has come for ten more regiments. I hope it is so. His stay at Fort Independence had done more for him than he knew. The serious, faithful, and intelligent manner in which he had striven to learn and do a soldier's duty there, had attracted the attention of a person who was able soon after to give him the opportunity of entering the mili4 memo/r or william francis bartlett. 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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