The Chaplains and Clergy of the Revolution - J. T. Headley - Google Libros

Libros

Imágenes de páginas

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

PAGE

RELIGIOUS ELEMENT OF THE REVOLUTION.-NOT SUFFICIENTLY DWELT ON BY

HISTORIANS.-Influence AND ACTION OF PASTORS.-EXAMPLE IN STOCK-

BRIDGE, MASS.-INTERESTING SCENE..

SYSTEMATIC INFLUENCE OF THE CLERGY.-ELECTION SERMONS BEFORE THE

REVOLUTION.-ELECTION SERMONS A PART OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE

PROVINCIAL LEGISLATURE-SAMUEL COOK'S SERMON'S, 1770.-MR. TUCK-

ER'S, IN 1771.-CHARLES TURNER'S, IN 1778.-GAD. HITCHCOCK'S, IN 1774.—

"THE TEA OVERBOARD."-PRESIDENT LANGDON'S, IN 1775.-"BUNKER

HILL, MONITIONS OF THE COMING STORM."-THESE SERMONS THE POLITICAL

PAMPHLETS OF THE TIMES..

ELECTION SERMONS, PREAChed after thE ASSEMBLING OF THE CONTINENTAL

CONGRESS AND ORGANIZATION OF COLONIAL GOVERNMENT.-REV. WM.

GORDON. REV. SAMUEL WEST, of DartmoUTH, IN 1776.—BOLD APPEAL. 35

SERMONS DURING THE WAR.-SERMON OF SAMUEL WEBSTER, IN 1777.-BOLD

AND PATRIOTIC PRAYER.-DISCOURSE OF PHILLIP PAYSON, of Chelsea,

1778.-ELOQUENT APPEAL.-PROPHETIC VISION...

PERSONAL INFLUENCE OF THE CLERGY.-APPOINTMENTS OF CHAPLAINS.-COR-

RESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE MINISTERS OF CONNECTICUT AND MASSACHU

SETTS.-THAXTER, FOSTER AND PAYSON FIGHTING AT LEXINGTON AND

CONCORD. WASHINGTON ASKS CONGRESS FOR CHAPLAINS.-NUMBER AND

NAMES OF, IN THE ARMY AT CAMBRIDGE.-WASHINGTON'S SECOND LETTER

TO CONGRESS ON THE SUBJECT.-HIS ORDER RESPECTING CHAPLAINS.-DAVID

ELY. JOSEPII FISH.-JONAH STEARNS.-JOHN MILLS.-DAVID CALDwell.

-THOMAS READ.-ROBERT DAVIDSON.-ELIZUR GOODRICH.-WM. GOR-

HAM.-JOIN STEELE-FRANCIS CUMMINGS.--AZEL ROE.-Hezekian BALCII.

-CHARLES NOKNIGHT.-MANASSEH CUTLER.-NATHAN STRONG.-NATHAN-

IEL PORTER.-ANNIE ROBINS.-JOHN CLEVELAND.-SAMUEL MCCLINTOCK.

-HEZEKIAH RIPLEY.-ISAAC LEWIS.-DR. Latta.-Dr. ARMSTRONG..........

JONAS CLARK.-THE PASTOR OF LEXINGTON. HIS MINISTERIAL LIFE.-EARLY

TEACHINGS.-PATRIOTIC CONDUCT AND ABILITY AS A STATESMAN.-HAN-

COCK AND ADAMS FIND REFUGE IN HIS HOUSE.-NEWS OF THE APPROACH OF

THE ENEMY. HIS ACCOUNT OF IT.-SUMMONING OF THE MILITIA.-SCENE

ON THE GREEN.-APPROACH OF THE ENEMY. THE SLAUGHTER.-MR. CLARK

AMONG HIS SLAIN PARISHIONERS. HIS FEELINGS and PREDICTION.............. 74

JACOB DUCHE-OPENS THE FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS WITH PRAYER.

JOHN ADAMS'S DESCRIPTION OF THE SCENE. HIS PATRIOTIC SERMONS.-

GIVES HIS PAY AS CHAPLAIN TO THE FAMILIES OF THOSE SLAIN In Battle.

-BECOMES ALARMED, AND TURNS AGAINST HIS COUNTRY.-IIIS INSULTING

LETTER TO WASHINGTON.-FLEES THE COUNTRY.-IIIS RETURN TO PHILA-

DELPHIA. HIS DEATH.-HIS CHARACTER..................................

SAMUEL SPRING, D.D.-HIS EARLY LIFE.-BECOMES CHAPLAIN IN THE ARMY.—

THE ONLY CHAPLAIN IN ARNOLD'S EXPEDITION ACROSS THE NORTHERN

WILDERNESS.-HIS DESCRIPTION OF ITS FORMATION.-PREACHES AT NEW-

BURYPORT TO THE ARMY.-VISITS THE TOMB OF WHITFIELD. DESCRIPTION

OF THE MARCH THROUGH THE WILDERNESS.-HIS SUFFERINGS AND LABORS.

-FAMINE-HIS DESCRIPTION OF SHOOTING A MOOSE.-HIS LABORS AT

POINT AUX TREMBLES.-STORMING OF QUEBEC.-HE LEADS ARNOLD OUT

OF THE FIGHT.-LEAVES THE ARMY.-SETTLED AT NEWBURYPORT.-HIS

INTERVIEW WITH AARON BURR.-HIS DEATH...

EBENEZER PRIME. HIS PATRIOTISM.-DRIVEN FROM HIS CHURCH.-IIIS LI-

BRARY DESTROYED.-HIS DEATH.-INSULT TO HIS GRAVE...

SAMUEL EATON.-IS SETTLED IN HARPSBURG, MAINE.-PRACTICES THREE PRO-

FESSIONS. ATTENDS A POLITICAL MEETING.-HIS STIRRING ADDRESS.-

NARROW ESCAPE OF AN OFFICER OF THE KING.-RECRUITING OFFICER

SEEKS HIS AID.-EATON ADDRESSES THE PEOPLE ON SABBATH EVENING.-

THRILLING SCENE.-SOLDIERS OBTAINED.-HIS DEATH....

WILLIAM TENNENT. HIS BIRTHI AND EDUCATION.-SETTLEd at Norwalk,

CONN.-REMOVES TO CHARLESTON, S. C.-HIS PERSONAL APPEARANCE.-

HIS ELOQUENCE. HIS BOLDNESS AND ZEAL IN THE CAUSE OF THE COLO-

NIES. MAKES PATRIOTIC APPEALS ON THE SABBATH.-IS ELECTED MEMBER

OF THE PROVINCIAL CONGRESS OF SOUTH CAROLINIA.-SENT WITH HENRY

DRAYTON TO BACK SETTLEMENTS TO BAFFLE TORIES.-LETTERS TO HENRY

LAURENS AND CONGRESS.-AGAIN SENT TO CONGRESS.-HIS CHARACTER... 115

PETER GABRIEL Muhlenburg.—Fighting ClerGYMEN.-MUHLENBURG'S BIRTH

AND EDUCATION.-GOES TO ENGLAND.-SETTLES IN VIRGINIA. TAKES A

PROMINENT PART IN POLITICAL MOVEMENTS.-BECOMES MEMBER OF THE

HOUSE OF BURGESSES.-RAISES A REGIMENT, OF WHICH HE IS CHOSEN

COLONEL-PREACHES HIS FAREWELL SERMON.-ORDERS THE DRUM TO

BEAT FOR RECRUITS AT THE CHURCH DOOR.-MARCHES TO CHARLESTON.-

CAMPS AT VALLEY FORGE.-FIGHTS BRAVELY AT BRANDYWINE.-AT MON-

MOUTH.-COMMANDS THE RESERVE AT STONY POINT.-MAKES A DESPERATE

ASSAULT AT YORKTOWN.-IS MADE MAJOR GENERAL.-POLITICAL CAREER

AFTER THE War.-Defence OF COURSE IN ABANDONING PROFESSION.......... 121

THOMAS ALLEN. HIS BIRTH AND EDUCATION.-SETTLES IN PITTSFIELD.—

TAKES DECIDED PART WITH THE COLONIES.-IS MADE CHAIRMAN OF THE

COMMITTEE OF SAFETY AND CORRESPONDENCE.-HIS LABORS.-HIS INTER-

EST IN THE CONQUEST OF TICONDEROGA.-NEW AND INTERESTING LETTER

TO GEN. SETH POMROY.-JOINS THE ARMY AS CHAPLAIN. HIS DIARY AT

THE BATTLE OF WHITE PLAINS.-GOES TO TICONDEROGA.-ADDRESS TO THE

SOLDIERS WHEN EXPECTING AN ATTACK-HIS DISGUST AT THE RETREAT.-

RALLIES THE MILITIA TO THE AID OF STARKE, at BennINGTON.-SUMMONS

THE ENEMY TO SURRENDER, AND IS FIRED AT.-FIGHTS IN THE RANKS.—

FIRST OVER THE BREAST-WORK.-HIS CARE FOR THE WOUNDED.-RE-

TURNS TO IIIS PARISH.-DIALOGUE WITH A PARISHIONER.-VOYAGE TO

ENGLAND AFTER AN INFANT GRANDCHILD.-PRAYS WITH AND ADDRESSES

THE CREW IN EXPECTATION OF AN ATTACK.-HIS CONDUCT IN THE SHAY'S

REBELLION.-HIS STATESMANSHIP.-HIS DEATH....

JOHN ROSSBURGH.-AN IRISHMAN BY BIRTH.-HIS EDUCATION.-IS SETTLED

AT THE FORKS OF THE DELAWARE."-HIS PATRIOTISM.-JOINS A COMPANY

FORMED IN HIS OWN PARISH AS A SOLDIER.-HIS PAINFUL PARTING WITH

HIS WIFE.-MAKES HIS WILL.-CHAPLAIN OF A REGIMENT.—Marches

AGAINST THE ENEMY.-IS TAKEN PRISONER, AND MURDERED WHILE PRAY-

ING FOR HIS ENEMIES. THE MUTILATED CORPSE STEALTHILY BURIED.-HIS

LETTERS TO HIS WIFE JUST BEFORE A SKIRMISH.-HIS CHARACTER......... 158

ABNER BENEDICT.-HIS BIRTII AND EDUCATION.-SETTLED AT MIDDLETOWN.

BECOMES CHAPLAIN IN THE ARMY AT NEW YORK.-DESCRIPTION OF A TER-

RIFIC THUNDER-STORM.-THE BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND.-HIS FEELINGS.—

THE LAST TO LEAVE THE SHORE IN THE RETREAT.-INVENTIONS IN SUB-

MARINE NAVIGATION.-MANUFACTURES SALTPETER FOR POWDER.-ELECT-

ED PROFESSOR IN YALE COLLEGE. HIS CHAracter and DEATH.........

WILLIAM WHITE, D.D.—HIS BIRTH AND EARLY STUDIES.-GOES TO ENGLAND.—

FRIEND OF GOLDSMITH AND JOHNSON.-SETTLED IN PHILADELPHIA.—

TAKES THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE.-NOBLE DETERMINATION.-ELECTED

CHAPLAIN OF CONGRESS.-HIS CONDUCT AFTER THE REVOLUTION.-IS

MADE BISHOP.-HIS CHARACTER AND DEATH......

TIMOTHY DWIGHT.-PATRIOTISM OF OUR COLLEGES.-DWIGHT'S BIRTH.-HIS

EARLY LIFE.-TUTOR OF YALE COLLEGE.-IS LICENSED TO PREACH.-HIS

PATRIOTISM.-BECOMES CHAPLAIN.-ADVOCATES COMPLETE INDEPEND-

ENCE. DESOLATE APPEARANCE OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.-SERMON AFTER

THE VICTORY AT SARATOGA.-ANECDOTE OF PUTNAM.-COMPOSES THE ODE

TO COLUMBIA.-DEDICATES A POEM TO WASHINGTON.-SHARES THE SUFFER-

INGS OF THE SOLDIERS AT WEST POINT IN THE WINTER OF 1778.-HIS

FAITH.-DEAD UNBURIED AT FORT MONTGOMERY.-DEATH OF HIS FATHER.

-LEAVES THE ARMY.-SETTLES AT Northampton.-GOES TO LEGISLATURE.

-PUBLISHES SEVERAL POEMS.-ELECTED PRESIDENT OF YALE COLLEGE.-A

FEDERALIST IN 1812.- EMINENCE AS A THEOLOGIAN. HIS DEATH..

NAPHTHALI DAGGET.-PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY IN YALE COLLEGE.-THE

COLLEGE BROKEN UP.-INVASION OF TRYON.-TERROR OF THE INHABITANTS.

-A COMPANY OF A HUNDRED YOUNG MEN RAISED TO RESIST HIM.-DR.

DAGGET AND HIS BLACK MARE.-ADVANCES ALONE TO RECONNOITER.—

THE FIGHT.-THE RETREAT.-DR. DAGGET REFUSES TO RUN.-INTERVIEW

WITH THE BRITISH OFFICER.-FORCED TO GUIDE THE COLUMN.-BRUTAL

TREATMENT.-RESCUED BY A TORY.-HIS SICKNESS.-DEATH.

EZRA STYLES.-HIS PROPHECY RESPECTING THE COLONIES, IN 1760.-PRESI-

DENT OF YALE COLLEGE.-CHANCELLOR KENT'S EULOGY OF HIM.-HIS

PATRIOTISM.-KEEPS A DIARY OF REVOLUTIONARY EVENTS.-HIS DEATH.. 205

JOEL BARLOW.-EARLY EDUCATION.-A FRIEND OF DWIGHT.-HIS POEM,

"THE PROSPECT OF PEACE."-BECOMES CHAPLAIN.-WRITES PATRIOTIC

BALLADS. HYMNS FOR YANKEE REBELS."-THE BURNING OF CHARLES-

TOWN."-OCCUPATION IN THE ARMY.-FRIEND OF WASHINGTON.-SERMON

ON ARNOLD'S TREASON.-BECOMES LAWYER AND EDITOR AT HARTFORD,

CONNECTICUT.-REVISES WATT'S PSALMS AND HYMNS-AGENT OF SCIOTO

LAND COMPANY.-VISITS ENGLAND AND FRANCE.-IN FRENCH REVOLU-

TION OCCUPATIONS IN EUROPE.-CONSUL AT ALGIERS-MAKES A FOR-

TUNE IN FRANCE.-RETURNS TO AMERICA.-REMARKABLE PROPHECIES IN IIIS

COLUMBIAD.-MINISTER TO FRANCE.-CHARGE OF RELIGIOUS APOSTACY... 207

JAMES CALDWELL.-HIS BIRTHI AND ANCESTRY. -PERSONAL APPEARANCE.-

POWER OF HIS VOICE.-HIS CHARACTER. HIS CONGREGATION AT ELIZA

BETHTOWN.-MADE CHAPLAIN.-HIS TOAST ON THE RECEPTION OF THE

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.-HIS ACTIVITY.-REWARDS OFFERED

FOR HIS CAPTURE.-REMOVES TO CONNECTICUT FARMS.-GOES ARMED.—

HIS SERVICES.-LETTER TO LEE.-ASSISTANT COMMISSARY GENERAL.-

LAST INTERVIEW WITH HIS WIFE. HER MURDER.-FIGHT AT SPRING-

FIELD. GIVE 'EM WATTS."-MURDER OF CALDWELL. HIS FUNERAL.—

HIS CHILDREN.-MONUMENT TO HIM...

BENJAMIN TRUMBULL-HIS BIRTH AND EDUCATION.-TAKES SIDES WITH THE

COLONIES-ENTERS THE ARMY AS CHAPLAIN.-FIGHTS IN THE RANKS.-

CURIOUS INTERVIEW WITH WASHINGTON.-FIGHTS AT WHITEPLAINS.--

ANECDOTE-FIGHTS AT NEW HAVEN.-KETURNS TO HIS PARISII.-WRITES

THE HISTORY OF CONNECTICUT.-HIS DEATH-HIS PUBLICATIONS.........

SAMUEL KIRKLAND.-HIS BIRTH AND EDUCATION.-A TEACHER IN DR.

WHEELOCK'S SCHOOL.-GOES A MISSIONARY TO THE INDIANS OF NEW

YORK STATE. HIS LABORS AND PERILS.-HIS MISSION BROKEN UP BY THE

REVOLUTION.-EMPLOYED BY CONGRESS TO KEEP THE INDIANS FROM JOIN-

ING THE BRITISII.--PREVENTED BY BRANDT.-A CHAPLAIN IN SULLIVAN'S

BRIGADE. ACCOMPANIES IT TO GENESEE FLATS.-HIS SERVICES REWARDED

BY CONGRESS-SETTLES AMONG THE ONEIDAS AFTER THE WAR.-FOUNDS

HAMILTON COLLEGE.-IS THROWN FROM HIS HORSE-IIIS DEATHI..

JAMES HALL-HIS BIRTH AND EDUCATION.-SETTLED IN NORTH CAROLINA.-

ROUSES HIS PEOPLE TO OPPOSE THE MOTHER COUNTRY.-IS MADE CAPTAIN

OF A COMPANY OF CAVALRY.-ACTS ALSO AS CHAPLAIN.-MARCHES TO

SOUTH CAROLINA.-OFFERED THE COMMISSION OF BRIGADIER GENERAL BY

GREENE.-DECLINES.-HIS AFTER LIFE...........

JOHN GANO. THE BAPTISTS OF VIRGINIA.-GANO'S EARLY LIFE.-VISITS THE

SOUTH AND PREACHES.-ARRAIGNED FOR IT, BUT 18 ACQUITTED AND LI-

CENSED. ANECDOTES OF HIS COOLNESS AND COURAGE.-SETTLED IN NORTII

CAROLINA.-OFFERED A CAPTAIN'S COMMISSION IN THE ARMY AGAINST THE

CHEROKEES.-DECLINES.-RETURNS NORTII.-FINALLY SETTLES IN NEW

YORK. HIS CONGREGATION BROKEN UP.-JOINS THE ARMY AS CHAPLAIN.

-UNDER FIRE AT WHITE PLAINS.-AT TRENTON.-CHAPLAIN UNDER CLIN-

TON AT FORT MONTGOMERY.-HIS DESCRIPTION OF THE TAKING OF THE

FORT.-WITH CLINTON'S BRIGADE AT ALBANY.-ITS CHAPLAIN.-IN THE

EXPEDITION AGAINST THE INDIANS.-ANNECDOTES OF HIM IN THIS CAM-

PAIGN. SERMON ON THE FOURTH OF JULY.-HIS FAITHFULNESS.-GOES

SOUTH WITH THE ARMY.-ADVANCING AGAINST CORNWALLIS.-RETURNS

TO HIS CHURCH AT THE CLOSE OF THE WAR.-REMOVES TO KENTUCKY.—

CHARLES CUMMINGS.-AN IRISHMAN BY BIRTH.-SETTLES IN VIRGINIA.-EN-

TERS THE MINISTRY.-FIGHTS THE INDIANS.-GOES ARMED TO HIS CHURCH.-

TAKES THE LEAD IN THE POLITICAL MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE.-CHAP-

LAIN TO THE ARMY IN THE EXPEDITION AGAINST THE CHEROKEES.-HIS

DANIEL MCCALLA.-HIS BIRTH.-GRADUATES AT PRINCETON WHEN EIGHTEEN

YEARS OF AGE.-STUDIES FOR THE MINISTRY.-SETTLES IN PENNSYLVANIA.

-APPOINTED CHAPLAIN UNDER GENERAL THOMSON.-IS TAKEN PRISONER

IN THE ATTACK ON "THREE RIVERS."-THROWN INTO A PRISON SHIP.

HIS SUFFERINGS AND FORTITUDE.-RELEASED ON PAROLE.-FLEES TO

VIRGINIA. SETTLES IN SOUTH CAROLINA.-HIS DEATH...
276

CHAPTER XXVIII.

JOHN WITHERSPOON, D.D.-THE CLERGY AS STATESMEN.-WITHERSPOON A

SCOTCHMAN BY BIRTH.-HIS EARLY LIFE.-IS LICENSED TO PREACH.-JOINS

THE ARMY OF THE PRETENDER-TAKEN PRISONER AT THE BATTLE OF FAL-

KIRK.-EMINENCE AS A THEOLOGIAN.-ELECTED PRESIDENT OF PRINCETON

COLLEGE-FLATTERING RECEPTION IN THIS COUNTRY. TAKES SIDES

WITH THE COLONIES.-ELECTED MEMBER OF THE NEW JERSEY LEGIS-

LATURE-SCATHING ATTACK ON GOVERNOR FRANKLIN.-ELECTED MEM-

BER OF CONGRESS.-HIS SPEECH ON THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.

HIS GREAT SERVICES IN CONGRESS.-HIS DEATH..

DAVID AVERY.-HIS BIRTH AND CHARACTER.-CON Verted under WHITFIELD.

-LEAVES HIS TRADE TO STUDY FOR THE MINISTRY.-ENTERS DR. WHEEL-

OCK'S CHARITY SCHOOL-GRADUATES AT YALE COLLEGE.-STUDIES DIVIN-

ITY. A MISSIONARY AMONG THE INDIANS.-SETTLED AT GAYSBORO, VER-

MONT. HIS PATRIOTISM.-RAISES A COMPANY AND MARCHES TO BOSTON.-

MADE CHAPLAIN.-NODDLE'S ISLAND.-PRESENT AT THE BATTLE OF BUNKER

HILL. PRAYING FOR VICTORY.-ACCOMPANIES WASHINGTON THROUGH

THE JERSEYS.-WOUNDED AT TRENTON.-AT VALLEY FORGE.-AT TICON-

DEROGA.-AT BENNINGTON.-HIS DEATH..

ISRAEL EVANS.-HIS CHARACTER.-ORDAINED CHAPLAIN IN THE ARMY.-RE-

MAINS WITH THE NEW HAMPSHIRE BRIGADE THRough the WAR.-STANDS

BESIDE WASHINGTON AT YORKTOWN.-ANECDOTE OF HIM AND WASHING-

TON. HIS SERMON ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE.-SETTLED AT CONcord,

NEW HAMPSHIRE.-HIS DEATH.......

COTTON MATHER SMITH.-HIS BIRTH AND PARENTAGE.-A TEACHEr among

THE INDIANS.-STUDIES THEOLOGY.-IS SETTLED AT SHARON, CONN.-IN-

FLUENCE OF THE CLERGY OF CONNECTICUT IN BRINGING ABOUT THE REV-

OLUTION. HIS VIEWS OF THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE COLONIES AND

MOTHER COUNTRY.-THE PART HE TOOK IN IT.-PATRIOTISM OF HIS CON-

GREGATION. IS MADE CHAPLAIN, AND MARCHES TO TICONDEROGA.-HIS

DEVOTION TO THE SICK.-SEIZED WITH THE CAMP FEVER.-RETURNS

HOME. INVASION OF BURGOYNE.-HIS SERMON JUST BEFORE THE FINAL

VICTORY AT SARATOGA. — THRILLING SCENE. HIS CHARACTER.

JUDAH CHAMPION, THE PASTOR OF LITCHFIELD, CONNECTICUT.-HIS PRAYERS

FOR HIS COUNTRY.-EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN CHURCH ON THE ARRIVAL

OF NEWS FROM THE ARMY.-WOMEN WORKING ON THE SABBATH TO PRE-

PARE GARMENTS FOR THE SOLDIERS.-THE PASTOR ON THE FIELD OF

CHAPTER XXXIII.

ALEXANDER MCWHORTER.-HIS EARLY LIFE.-ZEAL IN THE CAUSE OF LIB-

ERTY.-SENT SOUTH BY CONGRESS TO ROUSE THE INHABITANTS.-ACCOM-

PANIES WASHINGTON IN HIS RETREAT THROUGH NEW JERSEY.-MADE

CHAPLAIN OF KNOX'S BRIGADE.-LEAVES THE ARMY.-SETTLES IN NORTH

CAROLINA. HIS LIBRARY AND FURNITURE DESTROYED BY THE British.-

FLEES TO PENNSYLVANIA. SENT TO ENGLAND TO RAISE FUNDS FOR PRINCE-

TON COLLEGE.-REVISITS HIS NATIVE PLACE. HIS DEATH.

MOSES ALLEN. HIS EARLY LIFE.-A FRIEND OF MADISON. -SETTLES IN

MIDWAY, GEORGIA.-HIS PATRIOTIC EFFORTS.-CHAPLAIN IN THE ARMY.-.

HIS HOUSE AND CHURCH BURNED. IN THE BATTLE BEFORE SAVANNAH.—

IS TAKEN PRISONER.-CONFINED ON BOARD A PRISON SHIP.-HIS SUFFER-

INGS.-BRUTALITY OF HIS CAPTORS.-ATTEMPTS TO ESCAPE.-IS DROWNED.

-DENIED DECENT BURIAL..

BENJAMIN POMEROY.-HIS EARLY LIFE.-BECOMES A "NEW LIGHT."-IS PER-

SECUTED BY THE STATE, AND FINALLY DEPRIVED OF HIS SALARY.-BE-

COMES CHAPLAIN IN THE FRENCH WAR-HIS LETTER TO HIS WIFE

« Anterior Continuar »