Memoirs of a Late Officer in the Army of the United States
Memoirs of a Late Officer in the Army of the United States
American Sunday School Union
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This he easily did, and, amidst the prayers and tears of his fetther and wife. Fuller left the home of his childhood, and the abode of peace and piety, for the Digitized by LjOOQIC AN OFflCSB. m langers of war, and the society of worldly men. The division of the army to which Puller belonged marched into Ca- nada; and he so distinguished him- self there by his bravery, that he was soon raised to the rank of se- cond lieutenant. He was in Fort Sandudty when Colonel Croghan was besieged there, wi...th only one hundred and eighty men, by twelve hundred men, under the British ge- neral, Proctor. It wa& determined by the American officer to make an attack, by night, on a battery from which the enemy were firing upon them during the day. But the night on which it was to be at- tempted was so dark that they could not determine the precise direction in which the battery stood, and knew not how to point the cannon. Digitized by LjOOQIC 32 THE LIFE OF It was necessary that some persons should go from the fort, and fix a light .in the right direction.
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