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General Howe quickly formed his troops in line, as did the other division commanders. The line of battle of the corps extended from the pontoon bridge at Franklin's Crossing to the right of the town of Fredericksburgh. First, on the left, Brooks' division held the plain in front of the crossing.

Some sleep beneath the tall pines of Yorktown; and the bright azalia casts its purple blossoms over the graves of many who lie in the swamps of the Chickahominy. The Antietam murmurs a requiem to those who rest on its banks, and green is the turf above the noble ones who fell gloriously at Fredericksburgh. Some rest amid the wild tangles of the Wilderness, and upon the arid plain of Coal Harbor.

Have not the days following Manassas, and the Seven Days before Richmond, and Fredericksburgh, been hours in a national Gethsemane? And has not the hand been almost excusable, lifted in the prayer: "Father of Nations! if it be possible let this cup pass from us!" And yet the cup has not passed we have been draining it to the very dregs!

It comprised, beside our own, the Thirty-third New York, Colonel Taylor, a regiment whose gallantry at Yorktown, Williamsburgh and Fredericksburgh fully established its reputation as one of the best fighting regiments in the army.

I purpose keeping my quarters at this place until I have the honour of your excellency's answer, which I wait with impatience. I am, with respect, Your humble servant, His Excellency GEORGE WASHINGTON. Headquarters, Fredericksburgh, 26th October, 1778. I have your favour of the 24th.

I infer from the fact that settlements were previously made on both sides, at Fredericksburgh on one side, and at New Milford on the other, at New Milford there was a Quaker Meeting established in 1729, fifteen years before Quaker Hill that the value of the lands in the Oblong was well advertised.

Among the most energetic and brave officers of our Third brigade, was Major Ellis, of the Forty-ninth New York. He had been wounded at Spottsylvania while leading a charge against the enemy at the terrible "angle." A ramrod had passed through his left arm, and bruised the chest near the heart. He was taken to Fredericksburgh, from whence he went to Washington, and thence home.

Thacher's "Military Journal of the Revolution." The narrative of Vaughn is gleaned from old residents, Almira Briggs Treadwell, Archibald Dodge, Jane Crane, and others. "Washington Headquarters at Fredricksburgh," by L. S. Patrick; Quaker Hill Series, 1907. This matter is very fully treated in "Washington's Headquarters at Fredericksburgh," by Lewis S. Patrick.

When, with better roads to Poughkeepsie and to Fredericksburgh, newcomers began to invade the community; when in 1849 the railroad came to the neighborhood, immersing the Quakers in the world economy, the Quaker code was insufficient, retarded rather than assisted survival, and rather forbade than encouraged success. It therefore lost its force. Only in a few individuals has it survived.

There is probably more human electricity, more population to make it, more business, more light-heartedness, than ever before. The armies that swiftly circumambiated from Fredericksburgh march'd, struggled, fought, had out their mighty clinch and hurl at Gettysburg wheel'd, circumambiated again, return'd to their ways, touching us not, either at their going or coming.