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THE SUFFERING OF SOLDIERS IN EARLY DAYS.
BY HENRY B. BREVOORT.
Look on this Picture: Extract from Gen. Harrison's official report of the battle of the Thames: "We have suffered greatly for want of provisions, and the whole army have subsisted for three days on raw beef without salt. "
And then on this picture: Resolution offered in Hudson by Martin Van Buren, during the war: "Resolved, That the war is impolitic and disastrous, and to employ the militia in an offensive war is unconstitutional. "
It is the fate of soldiers to suffer. In 1801 sailing-master Henry B. Brevoort left Natchez with a crew of 36 men and ninety days' provisions, on board the schooner "President Adams, " mounting one double fortified twenty-
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