Memorial of the Centennial Celebration of the Battle of Oriskany, August 6, 1877
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At this time Lieutenant Gleni.'^, of the artillery, whom I appointed to act as assistant engineer, proposed a conversion of the royals (if I may APPENDIX TO HISTOKICAL ADDRESS. 107 use the expression) into howitzers. The ingenuity and feasibility this measure strilting me very stronglj^, the business was set about immediately, and soon executed, when it was found that nothing prevented their operating with the desired effect but the distance, their chambers being too small to hold a sufficiency... of powder. There was nothing now to be done but to approach the town by sap to such a distance that the rampart might be brought within their practice, at the same time all materials were preparing to run a mine under their most formidable bastion. "In the midst of these operations intelligence was brought in by our scouts, of a second corps of 1,000 men being on their march. The same zeal no longer animated the Indians ; they com- plained of our thinness of troops and their former losses. I imme- diately called a council of the chiefs ; encouraged them as much as I could ; promised to lead them on myself, and bring into the field 300 of the best troops.
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