Corporal 'Lige's Recruit: A Story of Crown Point and Ticonderoga

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Otis James. Corporal 'Lige's Recruit: A Story of Crown Point and Ticonderoga

CHAPTER I. RECRUITING

CHAPTER II. A SECLUDED CAMP

CHAPTER III. AN UNPLEASANT SURPRISE

CHAPTER IV. THE LETTER

CHAPTER V. NATHAN BEMAN

CHAPTER VI. A SQUAD OF FOUR

CHAPTER VII. TICONDEROGA

CHAPTER VIII. AN INTERRUPTION

CHAPTER IX. A BOLD STROKE

CHAPTER X. CROWN POINT

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When these raw recruits departed from the town – Corporal ’Lige insisted that they did not march – they were followed for several miles by nearly all the men and boys in the vicinity.

The old man was greatly exercised because Colonel Easton, who now assumed command, allowed such an unsoldierly proceeding as that his troops should walk arm in arm with their friends, each in his own manner and at his own convenience.

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It was because of these light-headed volunteers, who saw only in this expedition a novel and agreeable form of junketing, out of which it was their duty to extract all the sport possible regardless of the feelings of others, that Corporal ’Lige withdrew himself, so to speak, from his comrades, and barely acknowledged the salutes of any save his superior officers.

At the end of the second day’s journey he refused to go into camp with them; but applied to the captain of his company for permission to advance yet a short distance further, at which point he could join the troops when they came forward next morning. It was known by all the expedition, even including those who were making the old soldier the butt of their mirth, that he was held in high esteem by Colonel Ethan Allen, and the request, although irregular, was readily granted, after a warning against the perils attendant upon such a course.

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