Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . thus secured the liberty for which he had riskedhis life. After the declaration of peace, Isaac VVheeler returned to hisnative land, and astonished his friends with an account of hisadventures. He subsequently became master of a vessel, andacquired a competency. After a lapse of years, he sought out thewoman he had so strangely robbed, and made her ample restitutionfor her loss. In the year 1845 he fell a victim to the yellow feverat
Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . thus secured the liberty for which he had riskedhis life. After the declaration of peace, Isaac VVheeler returned to hisnative land, and astonished his friends with an account of hisadventures. He subsequently became master of a vessel, andacquired a competency. After a lapse of years, he sought out thewoman he had so strangely robbed, and made her ample restitutionfor her loss. In the year 1845 he fell a victim to the yellow feverat Havana, leaving a handsome property to his relatives. THE KIFLEMAN OF CHIPPEWA. At the time of the French and Indian Wars, the American armywas encamped on the Plains of Chippewa near the head waters ofthe Mississippi. Colonel St. Clair, the commander, was a braveand meritorious officer, but his bravery sometimes amounted to THE RIFLEMAN OF CHIPPEWA. 243 rashness, and his enemies have accused him of indiscretion. In the present instance perhaps he may have merited the accusation, for the plain on which he had encamped was bordered by a dense forest, from. THE RIFLEMAN SOLVING THE MYSTEET. the Indian scouts could easily pick off his sentinels without in theleast exposing themselves to danger. Five nights had passed, and every night the sentmel who stood ata lonely outpost in the vicinity of the forest had been shot; andthese repeated disasters struck such dread aniong the remainingsoldiers, that no one would come forward to offer to take the post,and the commander, knowing it was only throwing away menslives, let it stand for a few nights unoccupied. At length a rifleman of the Virginia corps volunteered his ser-vices for this dangerous duty; he laughed at the fears of his com-panions, and told them he meant to return safe and drink his com-manders health in the morning. The guard marched up soon after,and he shouldered his rifle and fell in. He arrived at the placewhich had be
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