. Concord: some of the things to be seen there ... MOMMKNT (ClVII. WAK). busily collecting through the preceding winter. This, however,is scarcely a distinction, for the town had become practicallythe only commissary depot of the patriots, and almost everyhcuse and barn contained a part of these valuable stores, the destruction of which was the object of General Gages unsuc-cessful raid of April 19. A walk of about half a mile up Monument Street, to thenorth, brings the visitor to the Old North Bridge, the scene ofConcord Fight. And, by the way, if the visitor desire to. BATTLE GROUN
. Concord: some of the things to be seen there ... MOMMKNT (ClVII. WAK). busily collecting through the preceding winter. This, however,is scarcely a distinction, for the town had become practicallythe only commissary depot of the patriots, and almost everyhcuse and barn contained a part of these valuable stores, the destruction of which was the object of General Gages unsuc-cessful raid of April 19. A walk of about half a mile up Monument Street, to thenorth, brings the visitor to the Old North Bridge, the scene ofConcord Fight. And, by the way, if the visitor desire to. BATTLE GROUND. Stand well with Concord people, he will never allude to thisafifair as the Battle of Concord; it is always Concord Fight,here. In 1775 the river was crossed by only two bridges, thesecond, or South Bridge, being a mile and a half further upthe stream. At the North Bridge, the road on the further bankof the river crossed the meadow, and after reaching the firm ground divided into two, followini, parallel with tlie stream inboth directions. The point at which tiie Irovincial forces gatli-ered, on the brow of the hill, three hundred yards beyond thebridge, is marked by a tablet set in the wall, and by a boulder,w ith a suitable inscription,in the grounds of the lateEdwin S. Barrett, a great-great-grandson of Barrett who com-manded the patriot forceon the iQlh of April, few rods to the north isvisible the house thenoccupied by Major JohnButtrick, who gave to histroops the first order evergiven to American rebelsto fire upon the soldiersof their king. The bron
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