. The works of Washington Irving. contradistinction to the fast-days and sermons borrowed from New was nothing of the puritanical spiritamong the Pennsylvania soldiery. In the same sectional spirit, he speaks of theConnecticut light-horse : Old-fashioned men,truly irregulars ; whether their clothing, equip-ments, or caparisons were regarded, it wouldhave been difficult to have discovered any cir-cumstance of uniformity. Instead of carbinesand sabres, they generally carried fowling-pieces, some of them very long, such as inPennsylvania are used for shooting and there on
. The works of Washington Irving. contradistinction to the fast-days and sermons borrowed from New was nothing of the puritanical spiritamong the Pennsylvania soldiery. In the same sectional spirit, he speaks of theConnecticut light-horse : Old-fashioned men,truly irregulars ; whether their clothing, equip-ments, or caparisons were regarded, it wouldhave been difficult to have discovered any cir-cumstance of uniformity. Instead of carbinesand sabres, they generally carried fowling-pieces, some of them very long, such as inPennsylvania are used for shooting and there one appeared in a dingy regi-mental of scarlet, with a triangular, tarnished,laced hat. These singular dragoons were vol-unteers, who came to make a tender of theirservices to the commander-in-chief. But theystayed not long in New York. As such a bodyof cavalry had not been counted upon, therewas in all probability a want of forage for theirjades, which, in the spirit of ancient knight-hood, they absolutely refused to descend from;. ^^^r
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