 | AN EPISODE OF WAR. Saratoga in 1901 |  |
AN EPISODE OF WAR.
The descendants of the Greens were also present. The elder
Green, now a white-haired old man, was a leading Loyalist
during the Revolution. He was always to be found where the
balls were the thickest—under the ammunition
wagon. He was called upon to hold General
Burgoyne's horse, when General Sherman
ordered him to surrender. Burgoyne and
Sherman both dismounted near where the
Saratoga Monument now is, and walked over to Moon's, where
they drank milk punches and ate fried potatoes. Moon was then
a mere lad. He now totters under the weight of one hundred
and ten years. He says that the season is so short at the Lake
that in reality he has lived only forty-six years. Sherman and
Burgoyne were afterward joined by General Butler and General
Beauregard.
They adjourned over to Myers' Cedar Bluff Hotel and drank
more punches, when, in an unguarded moment, Burgoyne surrendered
his entire army. Moon, Mrs. Myers, Marvin, and
William Leland all signed the articles of capitulation, and the
affair ended up with a grand ball at the Clarendon. Many of
the Clarendon maiden ladies were young then, and it was no
uncommon thing to see them engage in dancing and other
innocent amusements.
The British troops were paroled the same day, and before the
season was over most of the officers had married rich wives from
among the guests of Congress Hall. Burgoyne himself became
Collector of the Port of New York, and succeeded, on a salary
of $3,000 per year, in amassing an immense fortune at the expiration
of eight months. I get this from the Clarendon Income
Committee. Burgoyne's grand-daughters, beautiful blondes, occupied
front seats at the circus to-day.
| AN EPISODE OF WAR. Saratoga in 1901 | |