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At this time the California fever was at its height, hundreds of young men were starting westward, and she writes: "Oh, if I were but a man so that I could go!" Soon after coming to Canajoharie Miss Anthony joined the society of the Daughters of Temperance and was made secretary. Her heart and soul were enlisted in this cause.
"So hot and yet so young!" said Buell, laughing, "and after a long trail, too " glancing at my Indians, "and another in view already! But you were ever an uncompromising youngster, Loskiel." "Your regiment has marched for Canajoharie," I said. "When do you go a-tagging after it?" "This evening with the headquarter's guide, Heoikim, and the express rider, James Cooke. Lord, what a dreary business!"
His parents lived at Canajoharie Castle, in the far-famed valley of the Mohawk, but at the time of their son's birth they were far away from home on a hunting expedition along the banks of the Ohio. His father died not long after returning from this expedition.
Then, above the tumult, out of the north came booming three cannon-shots, the signal from the fort that Herkimer had desired to wait for. A detachment from the Canajoharie regiment surged out of the woods with a ringing cheer, pointing northward, where, across a clearing, a body of troops were rapidly advancing from the direction of the fort. "The sortie!
The soldiers of the Canajoharie regiment came up, swarming over a wooded knoll on the right, only to halt and stand, silently leaning on their rifles. For the battle of Oriskany was over. There was no cheering from the men of Tryon County.
Then hell itself broke loose in that black ravine; volley on volley poured into the Canajoharie regiment; officers fell from their horses; drivers reeled and pitched forward under the heels of their plunging teams; wagons collided and broke down, choking the log-road.
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