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I have the honor to be, with very great respect, sir, your obedient humble servant, Such is Captain Hull's modest account of this truly brilliant exploit.
He was a surgeon in the army during the war of 1812, and brought the news of Hull's surrender at Detroit to this city, from the mouth of Black River, a distance of twenty-eight miles, in two hours and fourteen minutes. Such was his character for promptitude to all the calls that were made upon him, and they were far from being few. For kindness to his patients and friends he had no superior.
She glanced toward the dripping figure whom the police would not permit under the shelter. Said she: "I want one of those papers." Davy moved toward the drenched distributor of strike literature. "Give me one, Dorn," he said in his most elegant manner. "Sure, Davy," said Dorn in a tone that was a subtle commentary on Hull's aristocratic tone and manner.
It is a tedious, trying march for Hull's little command of troopers, all that is now left to guard the train. The captain is constantly out on the exposed flank, eagerly scanning the rough country to the south, and expectant any moment of an attack from that direction.
It seems scarcely necessary to point the moral, which he naturally did not draw for the edification of his superiors in the Administration, that a like energy displayed on Lake Erie, when war was contemplated, would have placed Hull's enterprise on the same level of security that was obtained for his successor by Perry's victory a year later, and at much less cost.
For instance, our servants have relatives living in Cooper Street, where there's a pest of consumption." Old Hastings nodded. "That's part of Davy Hull's reform programme," said he. "And I'm in favor of it. The city government ought to make them people clean up." "Victor Dorn wants that done, too doesn't he?" said Jane. "No," replied the old man sourly.
With the laying up of the fleet on the lakes operations on the northern frontier closed, except in the far West, where General Harrison succeeded to the command after Hull's capitulation.
He was a sergeant then, though not in Hull's troop." "Does he say he knew me? or does he talk of that affair?" asked the lieutenant, with sudden interest. "Not that. He cannot be said to say anything; but he was wonderfully affected over your rescuing him, strangely so, one of the nurses persists in telling me, though the steward and Mrs. Clancy declare it was just drink and excitement.
Jerusha's shawl straightway fell from her shoulders; Hannah's bonnet was whipped from her head; Nathaniel paused on his way to the stable yard to bring out the team and a score of willing hands obeyed the injunction amid laughing encouragement from the young women whose feet already were tapping the floor in anticipation of the Virginia Reel, Two Sisters, Hull's Victory, or even the waltz, "lately imported from the Rhine."
In the days of the Black Hawk war I fought, bled, and came away. I was not at Stillman's defeat, but I was about as near it as General Cass was to Hull's surrender; and, like him, I saw the place very soon afterwards. It is quite certain I did not break my sword, for I had none to break, but I bent my musket pretty bad on one occasion.
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