The story of Patriots' day, Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775, with poems brought out on the first observation of the anniversary holiday . n the colonyabove tide-water. In its literary, political, and socialaspect it was not excelled by any except village at the centre then contained a church, acourt-house, a jail, a grist-mill, and two or three smallfactories. A few houses stood mostly in groups alongthe main road from Boston, being most numerous somehalf a mile south-east of where it crossed the road enters the town from the south-east alongthe side of a hill which
The story of Patriots' day, Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775, with poems brought out on the first observation of the anniversary holiday . n the colonyabove tide-water. In its literary, political, and socialaspect it was not excelled by any except village at the centre then contained a church, acourt-house, a jail, a grist-mill, and two or three smallfactories. A few houses stood mostly in groups alongthe main road from Boston, being most numerous somehalf a mile south-east of where it crossed the road enters the town from the south-east alongthe side of a hill which commences on the right of it,about a mile below the court-house. This hill risesfrom thirty to fifty feet above the level of the highway,and terminates a little past the north-western angle ofthe old square. The top of the hill is a plain, and onit stood the liberty-pole. The Concord River (mainbranch) flows sluggishly in a serpentine course throughthe town on the north-west side of the village, passingabout half a mile from its centre. The old SouthBridge was on the road running slightly south of west 38 .^ >£i^M fiiuenicAi BEOFORO). rsuoeuAY *^ Scene of Operations at Concord. THE BATTLE OF CONCORD 4I from the square, while a road running northward andbending westward crossed the river at the old NorthBridge. From here the road ran in an indirectlywestern course to Colonel James Barretts, about twomiles from the village. Colonel Barrett had been a member of the GeneralCourt, and was at this time member of the ProvincialCongress. By direction of this body he was in chargeof the military supplies in Concord, a considerablequantity being stored at his mill and house. He wasalso authorized to superintend the movements of themilitia, if called into action.^ It was between one and two oclock in the morningwhen the quiet community of Concord were arousedfrom their slumbers by the sound of the church Committee of Safety, the military officers, and theprominent citizens qu
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