Washington and his generals, or, Legends of the Revolution | ||
TABLE
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CONTENTS.
Page
Dedication.
Introductory Essay by the Rev. C.
Chauncey Burr. 1BOOK THE FIRST,
The Battle of Germantown. 23PART THE FIRST,
The Battle-Eve. 25I. The Red Cross in Philadelphia 25
The Entrance of the British 25
Lord Cornwallis at the head of his
legions 25II. The Haunt of the Rebel 27
The Old-time village 27
The view from Chesnut Hill 28
Washington on the Skippack 29
III. The Camp of the Britisher 29
Chew's house before the battle 29
The position of the British Army 30
Night in Germantown 30
The names, not recorded in the
“Herald's” college 31IV. The Night-March 32
Washington by his camp-fire 32
His plan of battle 33
The legions on their battle march 34
PART THE SECOND,
The Battle Morn. 35I. The Daybreak Watch 35
The sentinel on Mount Airy 35
The sound that he hears 36
II. The first corse of Germantown 36
The dream of the sentinel 36
The Brother's soul and the Sister's
prayer 37Washington comes to battle 37
The hunt of death begins 38
Pulaski's war-cry 39
The flash of musquetry 40
Washington and his Generals in
battle 41The halt at Chew's House 42
III. The Flag of Truce 43
The Volunteer of Mercy 43
His murder 44
PART THE THIRD,
Chew's House. 44I. The forlorn hope 44
A sight worth a score of years, to see 45
The fate of the stormers 46
II. The horseman and his message 47
Washington, receives intelligence 47
III. The British General 48
Scene in Germantown 48
The British army, in full force,
moves to the field 49IV. Legend of General Agnew 49
The old man in the graveyard 49
The rifle-shot 50
V. The contest in the village
street 50Sullivan's charge 50
The density of the fog 50
VI. Chew's house again 50
Fighting in the dark 50
VII. The adventure of Washington 51
He rushes into the enemy's fire 51
PART THE FOURTH.
The fall of the banner of the stars 52I. Washington in danger 52
His gallant exploit 53
II. The unknown form 53
Death, in the Riot, the Home and
the battle 53One face among a thousand 54
The Messenger of Peace 54
III. The Revel of Death 56
The drop from the ceiling 56
Not blood but wine 57
The last drop from the Goblet 58
IV. The Wissahikon 59
A poem of everlasting beauty 59
The Hessians and the Continentals 60
The vengeance of the Continentals 61
V. The Crisis of the fight 61
Nine o'clock in the morning 61
The daring of the Chieftains 62
The Curse of Washington 63
VI. “Retreat.” 64
Washington's agony 64
PART THE FIFTH,
The last shot of the battle. 65I. The soldier and his burden 65
The group by the wayside 65
How goes the battle? 66
The last fight of the veteran 67
“Lost!” 68
II. How the legions came back from
battle 68The terror of the retreat 68
The wound of General Nash 69
Washington's last look at the field 69
III. Captain Lee 69
His daring adventure 70
He foils the Hanovarians 71
IV. Sunset upon the battle-field 71
The spirit of desolation 71
Death, supreme, among the wrecks
of battle 72The murdered boy 72
V. The legend of General Agnew
again 73He will go `Home!' to morrow! 73
The last dead man of the battle day 74
PART THE SIXTH,
The funeral of the dead 74I. The ancient Church 75
Washington and his Generals before
the graves of the dead 75II. Funeral sermon over the dead 76
The preacher speaks of the dead 76
—To Washington 77
—Of the Heroes of the Past 78
III. Prayer for the dead 79
The last scene 80
BOOK SECOND.
The Wissahikon 85
Introduction—the beauty of the
stream and dell—a gleam of the
Indian maids of old 85I. The consecration of the Deliverer
86The Monastery 87
A strange scene 88
The Priest of Wissahikon 89
The last day of 1773 90
A wild superstition 91
The new World, the Ark of Freedom
92Prayer of the father and son 93
The Deliverer comes 94
The Prophet speaks to him 95
A maiden looks upon the scene 96
The Deliverer is consecrated 97
He takes the oath 98
Washington visits the ruins 98
II. The Midnight Death 99
Scene on the Wissahikon at midnight
99Ellen 100
Old Michael meets the Tory band 101
The Parricide 102
The Orphan's curse 103
The yell of the dying horse and
his rider 104III. The Bible Legend of the Wissahikon
104A memory of “Paoli!” 104
The ordeal 105
The Old and New Testaments 106
This speaks, Life, that, Death 106
The hand of Providence 107
IV. The temptation of Washington 107
Washington in prayer 108
The stranger in the red uniform 108
A Dukedom for the Rebel 109
Scorn from the Rebel to the King 110
V. Washington as duke, king
and rebel 111The Viceroy Washington 111
He is presented to the King 112
He is crowned in Independence
Hall 113He is beheaded on Tyburn Hill 113
As he is! 114
VI. The hero Woman 115
The block house among the
woods 115The young girl beholds her
father's danger 116She loads the rifle 117
A terrible picture 117
She points the rifle to the powder
keg 118VII. King George in Westminster
Abbey 119An afternoon among the dead 119
How the good king looked 120
How he scorned the widow's
prayer 120What strange sights he saw 121
Orphans curse him! 122
He visits Valley Forge 123
Washington prays against him 124
He goes mad again 125
VIII. Valley Forge 126
The Tory and his daughter
Mary 126The plot to entrap Washington 127
The Room on the Right and the
Room on the left 128The old man beholds his victim 129
The last word of the death-stricken
130IX. The Mansion on the Schuylkill
131The falls of Schuylkill 131
A scene of the olden time 132
The last secret of Cornelius
Agrippa 133The Sister, in her Vision sees
her brother 134Amable in danger 134
The libertine enjoys the sight
of his intended victim—
the agony of the dying
man 135A red Indian 136
A white Indian 137
The Virgin Widow 138
`Do not lift the coffin-lid from
the face of the dead!' 139Indian to the last 139
X. The graveyard of Germantown
140Its memories of God and Immortality
140A father—a Mother—two
sisters! 140The old Quaker and the Skeletons
141A rough battle picture 142
`He saw Washington!' 143
—`Cornwallis!' 144
XI. “Remember Paoli!” 144
The camp fire of Mad Anthony 144
The Massacre 145
Stony Point 146
How Anthony `Remembered
Paoli!' 148BOOK THIRD.
BENEDICT ARNOLD. 151I. The Mother and her babe 151
Scene in a New England church,
one hundred years ago 151The strange vision of the
Mother 152The Babe grown to Manhood—
the Child changed into a
Devil 153One drop of virtue, in a sea of
crimes! 153II. The Druggist of New Haven 154
The fearful nature of this history
154The deformed Children of
history 155The Druggist 155
How he became a Soldier 156
Ticonderoga! 156
III. The March through the Wilderness
157Napoleon and Arnold 158
Washington and Arnold, — interview
“Continental.” 158The Kennebec—a lone Indian 159
The Murder of a Priest at the
Altar, by White Savages 160Arnold claims the Wilderness—
the Prophecy 161The River of the Dead 162
The Banner of the Stars 162
The Lake 162
The fearful dangers of Arnold and
his men 163He sees Quebec! 163
IV. The attack on Quebec 163
Montgomery and Arnold pledge
their Faith on the heighths
of Abraham 164Arnold, with his Men,advances
to the first barrier 165Arnold in his glory 166
Aaron Burr bends over the
Corse of Montgomery 167Arnold in the madness of the
battle 168V. The War-Horse Lucifer 169
Retreat of the American army—
incident in the career of
Arnold 169VI. The Ape-and-Viper God 170
The renown of Arnold 170
The Spirit of Party 170
The injustice of Congress to
Arnold 171His adventure near Danbury 172
VII. The Bridal-Eve 172
The festival and wager 173
The Apparition 173
The bloody scalp and long
black hair 175An awful bridal Eve! 176
VIII. The Black Horse, and his
rider; or “Who was
the Hero of Saratoga?” 176Horatio Gates before his tent 176
The Black Horse and his Rider 177
“Ho! Warren! forward?” 178
The scene with the retreating
soldiers 179A strange spectacle! 180
The crisis of the conflict 180
In the moment of peril, the Champion
of the day appears 181The Battle is won—fate of the
Black Horse and his rider
—meanness of Gates 182Arnold the Conqueror 183
IX. Arnold the Military Commander
of Philadelphia 183The aisle of Christ Church 183
The Hero of Quebec and his
Bride 184The Tory Aristocracy of Philadelphia
184Its cowardice, meanness and
pretension 185The difficulty of Arnold's
position 180His long expected trial and the
offences of which he was
found guilty 187The nature of these offences 188
A court of History, for the trial
of Arnold's chief accuser 189X. Who was this accuser? 190
General Cadwallader and the
Adjutant General of the
army—their conversation
in 1776 190Serious charges against the
Adjutant General 194The summing up of the evidence
192Arnold's memorable words 192
XI. The Disgrace of Arnold 192
The day of the reprimand 192
He cannot `live down persecution'
193The scene of the Reprimand 194
The portrait of the Accuser 195
XII. Arnold at Landsdowne 196
He meditates the Future 196
His Palace—his Wife—his
Infamy 197The silent influence of his
Wife 198XIII. Arnold the Traitor 199
The struggle 199
Three visitors 200
The Dispatch to Sir Henry
Clinton 201Arnold alone with his wife 201
XIV. The Fall of Lucifer 201
Tragedy and Common-Place 201
The Breakfast table of the
Traitor 202The wife and the babe of the
Traitor 203The expected Guest, does not
come 204The bursting of the thunder-bolt 205
Arnold under the British flag 206
Washington learns the
Treason 207The Mother and Washington 208
The Ship Vulture and its Passenger
209XV. The Tulip-Poplar, or the
Poor Men Heroes of
the Revolution 210Seven men watch for robbers 210
The day-dream of the wayfarer 211
Three men of the seven, arrest
the traveller 212The Pass of Arnold 213
The development 214
The bribe 215
A prisoner, a spy and the Vulture
in sight! 216The Poor Men Heroes of the
Revolution 217The blunder by which Arnold
escaped 218XVI. The Knight of the Meschianza
219A scene of romance 219
The Tournament 220
The scene sadly changed 221
The Gallows 221
The victim for the Sacrifice 222
The Knight of the Meschianza
dies 223Flowers on the Gibbet 223
XVII. John Champe 224
The luxurious chamber 224
A mysterious visitor 225
The Ghost of John Andre 226
The wife of Arnold and the
Ghost 227Washington in his Tent 228
A Knight of the Revolution 229
Only one way to save Andre? 230
The Camp of Lee's Legion 231
John Champe 232
The Deserter 233
The Pursuit 234
The stratagem 235
The hounds at fault 236
John Champe, the doomed man 237
“Powhatan save your master!” 238
The Crisis 239
Lee's laughter 240
A beautiful woman 241
A shadow of death, in the
festival 242Arnold's Oath 243
Champe alone with Arnold 244
Washington's letter 245
The memory of the gallant
Knight 246How he died 246
Vengeance upon the Double
Traitor 248The Phantom of Arnold's life 249
The Man who has not one
friend in the world 250Lee's encampment again—
scene changed 250“Champe a brave and honest
man!” 251Explanation of the Mystery 252
One of the noblest names in
history 253XVIII. The Temptation of Sir Henry
Clinton 253A calm evening and a cloudless
soul 253Sir Henry Clinton shudders at
the picture 254Exchange the Traitor for the
Spy 255Sir Henry's terrible temptation 256
Arnold's sneer 257
XIX. The Sisters 257
A flower garden 257
The bud and the moss rose 258
The Sisters talk of the absent 259
The Presentiment of the Second
of October 260The return of the aged soldier 261
The fatal intelligence 261
The Brother's Star 262
XX. Andre the Spy 263
Andre a partner in Arnold's
Conspiracy 263The Wife of Arnold, also a
conspirator 263Washington condemned him
justly 263Tears for the fate of Andre 264
XXI. Nathan Hale 264
The farewell of the student
soldier 264The Blessing of the aged
Mother 266The Betrothed 266
The Cell of the doomed Spy 266
The Martyr who has perilled Honor
for his Country 267The last night of the Doomed 268
The Death of the Martyr 269
No monument for him! 270
XXII. The Martyr of the South 270
Gloom in Charleston 270
The Gallows and the Murderer 271
The Prayer of the Sister and the
Children 272The Response of the titled Murderer 273
The farewell beside the gibbet 274
The cry of the Idiot Boy 275
The contempt of Washington 276
XXIII. Arnold in Virginia 276
Arnold the Destroyer 276
Despised by all—the men who
bought him, and the men
whom he would have sold 277A strange legend 277
The Benighted traveller and the
old hunter 278An old soldier's opinion of Arnold 279
The emotion of the stranger 280
The old hunter sees a vision of
the Evil Spirit 281XXIV. The three words which followed
Benedict Arnold
to his Grave 282The burning of New London and
Fort Griswold 282The death of Leydard 283
British magnanimity 283
The guilt and weakness of King
George 283The three words 284
Talleyrand and Arnold 285
The Remorse of the Traitor 286
The obscurity of his death 286
XXV. Arnold; his glory, his wrongs,
his crimes 287His early life 287
The prime of his manhood 288
Washington's opinion of him 289
His marriage—his enemies—his
postponed trial 290Review of his offences, difficulties
and treason 291Motives of the Author in this dark
history 292The three lines, which comprise the
whole burden of this Tragedy 292XXVI. The Right Arm 293
An awful death-bed 294
A superhuman Remorse 295
The last memory of the fallen
Lucifer 296The Right arm 296
BOOK THE FOURTH.
THE BATTLE OF BRANDYWINE.
I. The Glory of the Land of Penn 299
Pennsylvania neglected by history 299
Her monuments 300
II. The Prophet of the Brandywine
301Description of the Valley of Brandywine
302Prophecy uttered forty years before
the battle 303III. The Fear of War 306
The landing of Howe 306
IV. The Gathering of the Hosts 306
The encampment of Washington
and his Men 307Howe, Cornwallis and their hirelings
308V. The Preacher of Brandywine 309
The Preacher Heroes of the Revolution
309Hymn to the Preacher Heroes 310
Revolutionary Sermon 312
Prayer of the Revolution 314
VI. The Dawn of the Fight 315
Washington holds council under
the chesnut tree 315La Fayette 316
The attack at Chadd's Ford 317
VII. The Quaker Temple 318
Survey of the battle-field 319
Howe comes to battle 320
VIII. Washington comes to battle 321
The approach of the American
Banner 321IX. The Hour of Battle 322
The moment before the contest
begins 322Howe gives the signal 322
The battle 323
X. The Poetry of Battle 324
The Idiot King and the Warrior
Form 324XI. Lord Percy's dream. 325
The story of Percy, told by him to
Cornwallis 325He beholds his Dream 326
His charge 327
He meets his Indian Brother 328
XII. The Last Hour 329
Retreat of Washington 329
Daring of the Boy La Fayette 329
XIII. Pulaski 330
In his glory 330
How he spoke English 331
Washington a man of genius 332
Pulaski rescues the Chieftain 333
Night comes down on Pulaski 333
XIV. Washington's last charge at
Brandywine 334Washington the Man 334
The key to his character 335
He surveys the battle 336
He goes down, to say to the British
—“farewell!” 337The carnage of his last charge 338
La Fayette wounded 339
The smile of the Brandywine 340
XV. The Hunter Spy 340
Scene among the mountains 340
Washington, the Colonel at Braddock's
field 341The three fugitives 342
The sleeping spy 343
His punishment 346
The Boy looks in his father's face 347
A horrible picture 348
XVI. The son of the Hunter Spy 348
The old man and his memory 349
The peasant girl, Mary 350
The son of the Hunter Spy 352
The arm of the maiden, supplies the
place of a bolt 354The Black Hercules 355
The haystack 356
The son, avenges the death of the
father 358The infamous butcheries of England
and the crimes of King George 359The Vow of the Negro Sampson 360
XVII. Black Sampson 360
Flowers from ashes 360
War, the parent of many virtues 361
The American Union a sacred
thing 361The guilt of the wretch who would
destroy it 362The memories of the Negro Prince 363
The outraged Mary 364
The Dog—`Debbil' 365
Sampson prepares to `go a-mowing.' 366
He mows British stubble 367
The last scene of Mary 368
The fate of the Son of the Hunter
Spy 370XVIII. The Mechanic Hero of Brandywine
372A scene of British mercy 372
The strange battle-cry 374
The three last shots of the dying
man 375XIX. Anthony Wayne at Brandywine 375
The boy and the mimic fight 375
The Man and the bloody battle 376
Wayne and his Roan horse 377
His riflemen drive back the Hessians
378The doubt of Washington 379
Wayne beholds the battle of the
afternoon 381The appearance of Kniphausen 383
The charge of Mad Anthony 384
XX. Forty-seven years after the
battle 386La Fayette comes again to the
battle-field 386His emotion as he contrasts the condition
of America with that of
France 387BOOK THE FIFTH.
THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1776.I. The Day.
The old state house 391
The old man, the boy, and the Bell 392
The message of the Bell to the
world 393The fifty-six, and the Speech of the
Unknown 394The message of the Declaration 395
The New Exodus of God's People,
the Poor 396The signing of the Parchment 397
II. The Apostle to the New
World 398The River shore, two hundred
years ago 398The Landing of the Apostle 400
The Mission of The Apostle 401
The Pipe of Peace 402
III. “Back eighteen hundred years!” 403
The Declaration traced from the
Hall of Independence to the
Mount of Calvary 403The Hut of the Carpenter 404
Godhead enshriaed in the form of
Toil 405The Bride of the Living God 406
The Doubt of Divinity 407
IV. The Wilderness 407
The skeleton people 408
The self-communion of the Nazarene 409
The Prince of this world 410
The Panorama of Empire 411
Ninevah—Rome, Imperial—Rome,
Papal 411The bloody grandeur of the Monster
Empire 412The voice of the Tempter, to every
Reformer 413The Pharasee of the Pulpit 414
The Viper of the Press 415
The Ministering of the Angels 415
VI. “The Outcast” 416
Sabbath in the synagogue 416
The appearance of the Carpenter's
Son 417He announces the great Truth, in
which is built the Declaration
418The “Infidel” is thrust from the
Synagogue 419The Godhead shines from the brow
of Toil 420The last look of the Outcast upon
his Home 421The name of the Outcast covers all
the earth 422The Coming of the day of God 423
VII. The hope of eighteen hundred
years 423The fate of the Saviour's mission
in 1775 423Pope George of England and his
Missionaries 424The solitary man on shipboard 425
VIII. The Council of Freemen 425
Washington, Adams, Rush, Franklin,
in council with the Unknown
stranger 426The word “Independence” first
spoken 426IX. The Battle of the Pen 427
The author—his garret—the battle
which he fights 427“Common Sense” in a book 428
The name of the Stranger 429
X. The Author-Soldier 429
He follows the Army of Washington
429The libeller of the dead 429
X. The People and the Criminal 430
A King on Trial; his Crime, treason
to the People 431King George, guilty of treason and
murder 432Thomas Paine pleads for the life
Louis Capet 433XI. King Guillotine 433
Death of Louis and Marie
Antoinette 433The offerings to the bloody Majesty
of France 434XII. Truth from the carnage 434
The principle of the French Revolution
434The hideous murders that have been
done in the name of God 435The Reign of Terror contrasted with
the Massacre of St. Bartholomew
436XIII. The Reign of the King of
Terror 436The chamber in the palace 436
`The orange-faced dandy' and his
Death-list 437XIV. The fall of King Guillotine 437
The Hall of the National Assembly
—the fear of Robespierre 437The Death of the King of the reign
of Terror 438XV. The Bible 439
The Palace-Prison of the Luxemburg
439Genius profaned in the “Age of
Reason” 440The beauty, tenderness, truth of
the Bible 441The mistake of Thomas Paine 442
My motives in the discussion of his
character, writings and life 443Christianity not the dogma of a creed
but the Religion of the Heart 444XVI. The death-bed of Thomas Paine 445
A dying old man 445
The hyena-fang of the bigot, enters
his soul 446A Quaker speaks Hope! to the
Infidel 446`No grave for your bones, in Christian
burial ground' 447He dies 447
While we pity the Deist, we should
reverence the Patriot 448XVII. Review of the History 449
XVIII. The last day of Jefferson and
Adams 449The fourth of July, 1826 449
Fifty years after the Great Day 450
The Home of Quincy 451
The Death of John Adams 452
The Hermitage of Monticello 453
The Death of Thomas Jefferson 454
A miracle 454
A dark contrast 454
XIX. The nameless death 455
The Prison 455
The Prisoner 456
An infamous law, upheld by pirates
and assassins in broad cloth 457XX. The last of the Signers 457
Life, leaf, light mingle in Death 457
The old man dies before the Crucifix
458The Violater of the Grave,
A sequel to the fourth of July, 1776 459The vilest Wretch 461
The man who blasphemes the Dead 462
A Traitor coated in Gold 463
The Assassin of souls 464
What is, and what is not, “well
timed” 465Glimpses of “Common Sense.” 466
The old malice of a Tory 468
Burke the Scyophant 469
A warning to Traitors' descendants 470
The children of the Author-Hero 471
BOOK THE SIXTH.
Romance of the Revolution.
I. Michael X X X: a tradition
of the two worlds 475The Soldier returning home 475
The war-horse Old Legion 476
The Memory of Alice 477
Home! 478
The foreboding of death 479
The Soldier and his father 480
The Chamber of Alice 481
The curtained bed 482
The Revelation 483
The death of the white horse 484
The Covenant of Blood 485
The dream of the Godlike face 486
The bracelet of Alice 487
Alice! 488
The Revenge of the Legionary 489
Michael the soldier, and Michael the
General, Marshal and Duke 490II. The ninth Hour 491
A scene in Valley Forge 491
Washington and the Sergeant 492
A strange volunteer for a work of
death 493The Bridegroom looks upon the
Bride 494The fear of the word, Nine 495
The last kiss 496
An old mansion in a dark dell 497
“Death to Washington!” 498
The Ordeal 499
The Spy 500
“Ah!”—how the memory of childhood
melts the heart of stone 501A strange revelation in the history
of a soul 502Again the fatal number—Nine! 503
Washington—Wayne—La Fayette
—Hamilton—Burr, the Wedding
Guests 503III. Washington's trust 504
The fallen goblet 505
An half hour of suspense—the guests
await the explanation of the
mystery 506The Bride and Bridegroom alone 506
The Ninth hour of the Ninth Day
of the Ninth Year 507The Sight which Washington
beheld 508IV. The Preacher-General 509
Sabbath Noon—the Church of St.
John 509The Sacrament 510
Strange words from a Preacher 511
Beneath the Gown, or Hero's heart 512
The Preacher-General 513
His adventure 514
Yorktown 514
Who was the Preacher-General 515
V Trenton, or the footstep in the
snow, a tradition of Christmas
night, 1776 516The Poetry of Home 516
The footstep in the Snow 517
“Trenton!” 518
VI. The Printer-Boy and the Ambassador
519A picture of Toil 519
A scene of Night, Music, Romance 520
The true Nobleman of God 521
VII. The Rest of the Pilgrim 522
The Jerusalem of the Soul 522
The Rock of Wissahikon 522
Legends of the Lost-Nations of
America 523A sublime vision 523
The three Empires 524
Legends of the golden and bloody
land 524The Soldier of the New Crusade 525
The Author to the reader 526
A new pilgrimage 527
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