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Title: The Minute Boys of the Mohawk Valley

Author: James Otis

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Language: English

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THE MINUTE BOYS OF THE MOHAWK VALLEY

by JAMES OTIS

Author of "The Boys of Fort Schuyler," "The Boys of '98,"
"Teddy and Carrots," "Captain Tom, the Privateersman,"
"The Boys of 1745," "The Signal Boys of '75,"
"Under the Liberty Tree," "When Israel Putnam Served the King,"
"The Minute Boys of the Green Mountains," Etc., Etc.

Illustrated by A. Burnham Shute
[Illustration: "An Indian strode gravely into the encampment"]

1911

Contents

I. Young Soldiers
II. The Powwow
III. Disappointment
IV. On the Oriskany
V. Divided Duty
VI. Between the Lines
VII. Insubordination
VIII. The Ambush
IX. The Indian Camp
X. Prisoners
XI. The Escape
XII. In the Fort
XIII. The Assault
XIV. Mutiny
XV. The Torture
XVI. Short Allowance
XVII. Perplexing Scenes
XVIII. Close Quarters
XIX. The Pursuit
XX. Enlisted Men

Foreword

It seems not only proper, but necessary, that I should explain how the
material for this story was obtained, and why it happens that I can thus
set down exactly what Noel Campbell thought and did, during certain times
while he was serving the patriot cause in the Mohawk Valley as few other
boys could have done.

At some time in Noel's life--most likely after he was grown to be a man
with children, and, perhaps, grandchildren of his own--he wrote many
letters to relatives of his in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, wherein he told
with considerable of detail that which he did during the War of the
Revolution, and more particularly while he and his friends were fighting
against that wily Indian sachem, Thayendanega. These letters, together
with many others concerning the struggles of our people for independence,
came into my keeping a long while ago, and from the lines written