To the Memory of William Smith
MSS L2019M89
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Title
To the Memory of William Smith
Published
[S.l. 18--?]
Description
[3] p. on 2 conjugate leaves ; 32 cm.
Call Number
MSS L2019M89
Note
Memorial for a revolutionary war soldier; it recounts Smith's military service: he participated in nearly every major battle under General Arnold, Washington & Lafayette -- Bunker Hill, New York campaign, Quebec, White Plains, Brandywine, Saratoga & Monmouth, Yorktown; also includes the description of how he survived the intense heat at Monmouth by collecting water in his hat and drinking sparingly while many of his fellow soldiers "laid down to drink and never rose again."
It recounts his life after the war (incomplete, but takes him up to 1831), drinking too much and then undergoing a religious conversion; he received a pension, but the person for whom he worked as a gardener took it all and gave him only "a scanty meal from the table after his hired men had finished their meal." "He being old found himself unable to live in that Manner he left him in may eighteen hindred [sic] and thirty one and came among his old friends and acquaintances the Husted's."
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It recounts his life after the war (incomplete, but takes him up to 1831), drinking too much and then undergoing a religious conversion; he received a pension, but the person for whom he worked as a gardener took it all and gave him only "a scanty meal from the table after his hired men had finished their meal." "He being old found himself unable to live in that Manner he left him in may eighteen hindred [sic] and thirty one and came among his old friends and acquaintances the Husted's."
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