The campaign of LieutGenJohn Burgoyne : and the expedition of LieutColBarry StLeger . ow cut army which, on first setting off from there, was 10,000 strong, hadalready diminished to 6000 [1000 had been left at Ticonderoga] and eventhese were provided with provisions not only scant in quantity, but bad inquality. ^ These barracks were used as a hospital and were located on the northside of the road to Saratoga Springs, directly upon the present site of the redbarns of the Hon. Alonzo Welch of Schuylerville, who resides a few rodseast of the barns in the main village street. The barracks
The campaign of LieutGenJohn Burgoyne : and the expedition of LieutColBarry StLeger . ow cut army which, on first setting off from there, was 10,000 strong, hadalready diminished to 6000 [1000 had been left at Ticonderoga] and eventhese were provided with provisions not only scant in quantity, but bad inquality. ^ These barracks were used as a hospital and were located on the northside of the road to Saratoga Springs, directly upon the present site of the redbarns of the Hon. Alonzo Welch of Schuylerville, who resides a few rodseast of the barns in the main village street. The barracks were standingand occupied by a farmer up to within thirty years. In March, 1867, , while plowing back of his barns, came across the burying place ofthe hospital. The bones thus exhumed, he carefully reburied. Schuylers house (so say the manusciipt Journals of the Brunswick offi-cers) was betiveer. the old village of Ticonderoga and the Fish kil. Thisfact is of great importance in locating the old village, which, by the way,at best consisted of only a few scattered
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