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THE SUFFERING OF SOLDIERS IN EARLY DAYS.
rivers when I was hailed from a flat boat, informing me they had dispatches for me, when Lieut. Joseph Miller came on board and handed them to me, on opening of which I found I was directed to return to Wilkinsonville, lay up my vessel, and do duty in the Second Regiment. I then held a Lieutenancy in the Third Regiment of Infantry, then commanded by Major Jonathan Cass, father of our Senator in Congress. I was soon after appointed the Adjutant of the First Regiment for a short time, until the arrival of Gen. Wilkinson and his two aides at Wilkinsonville, Lieutenants, afterwards Colonels Macomb and Walbeck, when I was relieved from duty and ordered
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