. New England; a human interest geographical reader. Fighting Joe Hooker, the most notableNew England general in the Civil War Bloody Brook ever common grave. The stream has been called since. At Turners Falls occurred another desperate battlewith the Indians in which both they and the whitessuffered severely. It was in the spring when the Indi-ans were there to fish. They were surprised at day-break while asleep, and many of them were driven into 128 New England. ^^^ the water and were swept to their death over thefalls. But Indians came from other camps, and theretreat of the English was a t
. New England; a human interest geographical reader. Fighting Joe Hooker, the most notableNew England general in the Civil War Bloody Brook ever common grave. The stream has been called since. At Turners Falls occurred another desperate battlewith the Indians in which both they and the whitessuffered severely. It was in the spring when the Indi-ans were there to fish. They were surprised at day-break while asleep, and many of them were driven into 128 New England. ^^^ the water and were swept to their death over thefalls. But Indians came from other camps, and theretreat of the English was a tragedy. A few miles farther up the river is Northfield, orSquakheag, as it was originally called. At the out-break of King Philips War it was on the far frontier and had been set-1 ^^-^^a^ ^i^^ only three years. Herewere seven-teen thatchedcabins, achurch, a logfort, and astockade ofrough logseight feet highpierced withloopholes. One day in early September, while someof the men were working in the meadows, a band ofIndians under Sagamore Sam and another chief knownas One-Eyed John assailed the town. They killeda number of people in the houses, shot down the work-ers who attempted to make their way from the mead-ows to the settlement, and burned several of thedwellings. But they could not capture the stockadedenclosure. A party coming to the aid of the town wasambushed, and nearly all of them killed. The headsof the slain were stuck up on poles by the waysi
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