A Chaplain of the Revolution (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from A Chaplain of the Revolution My story opens after the manner of Mr. G. P. R. James, with a solitary horseman making his way through the wilderness of Western Massachusetts and New Hampshire, to join the patriot army at the old fortress of Ticonderoga, in August, 1776. Rev. Enos Hitchcock, then a young man of thirty-one, was colleague pastor with Rev. Mr. Chipman of a Congregational church in Beverly, a native of Springfield, and a graduate of Harvard in the Class of 1767. Like most young men of that period, he was an ardent patriot, and threw himself into the contest with Great Britain with the enthusiasm of a generous nature. He had been appointed chaplain of Colonel Learned´s regiment, and was subsequently promoted to the chaplaincy of General Patterson´s brigade. In following his fortunes through the war of the Revolution and in the pastorate of the First Congregational Society in Providence, I shall make free use of his manuscript diaries, kept on interleaved almanacs, and preserved in the archives of the Rhode Island Historical Society. The brief entries from day to day on these stained and yellow leaves bring home to us the events of that great struggle more vividly than the formal pages of the historian. We catch glimpses, here and there, of the discipline of the army and of the trials and joys of the men, which are found only in the narratives of an eye-witness and active participant. 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.
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