Proceedings of the Bunker Hill Monument Association at the Annual Meeting |
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Página 32 - How sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Página 31 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
Página 24 - ... Connecticut forces to support them ; but the train marched a different course, and I believe those sent to their support followed, I suppose to Bunker's Hill. Another party of the enemy landed and fired the town. There was a party of Hampshire, in conjunction with some other forces, lined a fence at the distance of threescore rods back of the fort, partly to the north.
Página 24 - Ashford, with 400 of said forces, immediately repaired to, and pulled up a post and rail fence, and carrying the posts and rails to another fence, put them together for a breast work.
Página 23 - ... about twelve o'clock; and plying the work with all possible expedition till just before sunrising, when the enemy began a very heavy cannonading and bombardment. In the interim the engineer forsook me. Having thrown up a small redoubt, found it necessary to draw a line about twenty rods in length from the fort northerly, under a very warm fire from the enemy's artillery. About this time, the above field officers, being indisposed, could render me but little service, and the most of the men under...
Página 31 - Whatever withdraws us from the dominion of the senses — whatever makes the past, the distant, and the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings...
Página 29 - North-east corner of the Redoubt thrown up on the night of the sixteenth of June, 1775," having opposite to it, westerly, a signal point.
Página 24 - Not discouraged by the melancholly fate of their companion, the soldiers laboured indefatigably till they had thrown up a small breastwork extending from the north side of the redoubt ... to the bottom of the hill...
Página 29 - Outside, the children, in number like a swarm of bees, climbed and swung on the sketchy platform erected for the speakers of the afternoon, while under it, in the shade, their exhausted parents and guardians reclined and ate peanuts. Two flat stone tablets in the grass marked the " northeast corner of the Redoubt thrown up on the night of the sixteenth of June, 1775," and the "breastwork thrown up on the morning of the seventeenth of June, 1775.
Página 37 - Old soldiers who had known war on no trifling scale in both worlds had never seen so hot a conflict, or so many losses in proportion to the force engaged.