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THE SUFFERING OF SOLDIERS IN EARLY DAYS.
I have written the above from seeing in an old newspaper, which was found in an old pocket of mine, the two pictures, "Look at this, and then at this " to show that it was no uncommon thing for soldiers and sailors to fare hard at times. See my voyage to relieve the fort at Mackinac from starvation (as it was alleged) in December, 1816, for what I suffered.
Henry B. Brevoort.
Springwells, 10th April, 1854.
I sometimes think of making a few remarks of what has happened to me since I first came to the lake country, in 1797, and there to see to my leaving Pittsburgh in June, 1798. I have seen many hard times in this route during seventeen years in public service.
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