What to see in America . Pennsylvania 121. Bloody Angle at Gettysburg ming. The name isof Indian derivationand means largeplains. Its settle-ment began a fewyears before the Rev-olution, and by 177Sthere were severalvillages with school-houses and July of that yearthe Valley was in-vaded from the northby a wild aggregationof 1200 soldiers, In-dians, and renegade whites led by Indian Butler, an able but savagely cruelTory colonel, and by Queen Esther, a half-breed Senecawho had been liberally educated, and who had been pettedand feted by the best society in Philadelphia, Albany, and
What to see in America . Pennsylvania 121. Bloody Angle at Gettysburg ming. The name isof Indian derivationand means largeplains. Its settle-ment began a fewyears before the Rev-olution, and by 177Sthere were severalvillages with school-houses and July of that yearthe Valley was in-vaded from the northby a wild aggregationof 1200 soldiers, In-dians, and renegade whites led by Indian Butler, an able but savagely cruelTory colonel, and by Queen Esther, a half-breed Senecawho had been liberally educated, and who had been pettedand feted by the best society in Philadelphia, Albany, andNew York. A force of three hundred frontiersmen, man}^of them boys or old men, put themselves in the path of theinvaders four miles above Kingston on the west side of theriver. They were soon defeated, and many were killed orcaptured. Queen Esther had a score of prisoners assembled,bound and kneeling about a great bowlder three miles farthernorth. Then she seized a heavy tomahawk, and shriekeda wild song while she swept swiftly around the
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