A history of the American people . y were within a few score yards ofthem and then volleyed with the definite and deadlyaim of marksmen. Colonel Washington received his formal commissionon the 19th, and was on horseback for the journey north-ward by the 21st. On the 3d of July he assumed com-mand at Cambridge. In choosing Washington for thecommand of the raw levies of Massachusetts, Connecti-cut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire set down in im-promptu siege before Boston, Mr. John Adams and theoilier New Englanders who acted with him had meant,not only to secure the services of the most experie
A history of the American people . y were within a few score yards ofthem and then volleyed with the definite and deadlyaim of marksmen. Colonel Washington received his formal commissionon the 19th, and was on horseback for the journey north-ward by the 21st. On the 3d of July he assumed com-mand at Cambridge. In choosing Washington for thecommand of the raw levies of Massachusetts, Connecti-cut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire set down in im-promptu siege before Boston, Mr. John Adams and theoilier New Englanders who acted with him had meant,not only to secure the services of the most experiencedsoldier in America, but also, by taking a man out of theSouth, to give obvious proof of Hie union and co-opera-tion of the colonies. They had chosen better than theyknew. It was no small matter to have so noticeable aman of honor and breeding at the head of an army whoseenemies deemed it a mere peasant mob and rowdy as-semblage of rebels. Washington himself, with hisnotions of authority, his pride of breeding, his schooling^33. FoTTj/lCdtfonSBOSTON AND BUNKER HILL, FROM A PRINT PUBLISHED IN I7S1 THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE in conduct and privilege, was far from pleased, till hebegan to see below the surface, with the disorderlyarray he found of uncouth, intractable plough boysand farmers, one esteeming himself as good as another,with free-and-eas3T manners and a singular, half-indif-ferent insolence against authority or discipline. There are some fine fellows come from Virginia,Joseph Reed, of Pennsylvania, had written of the Vir-ginian delegates to the Congress at Philadelphia; butthey are very high. We understand the}7 are the cap-ital men of the colony. It was good that one of themasterful group should ride all the public way fromPhiladelphia to Boston to take command of the army,the most conspicuous figure in the colonies, showingevery one of the thousands who crowded to greet or seehim as he passed how splendid a type of self-respectinggentlemen was now to be seen at the
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