A short narrative of the horrid massacre in Boston, perpetrated in the evening of the fifth day of March 1770, by soldiers of the XXIXth regiment, which, with the XIVth regiment, were then quartered thereWith some observations on the state of things prior to that catastrophePrinted by order of the town of Boston . never let it herieserted or dishonored liy hrave Kentuckians. lioudlythe army exclaimed, Never! Never! They then jraveihrtH- rousiiifr cheers for the hulies of Old Kstill. The ni<)rnin<; they started on their journey,while a driz/.linp rain was .Many of the hoys
A short narrative of the horrid massacre in Boston, perpetrated in the evening of the fifth day of March 1770, by soldiers of the XXIXth regiment, which, with the XIVth regiment, were then quartered thereWith some observations on the state of things prior to that catastrophePrinted by order of the town of Boston . never let it herieserted or dishonored liy hrave Kentuckians. lioudlythe army exclaimed, Never! Never! They then jraveihrtH- rousiiifr cheers for the hulies of Old Kstill. The ni<)rnin<; they started on their journey,while a driz/.linp rain was .Many of the hoys ihoM^rht their hardships had surely c nenced: hut, alas, their after experiences told them how much theyccudd sulfi-r. Were I to to narrate all I lie hrave acts ofthis P^riment. it woidil lill a histor\ iiiiich lar^er thantiiis one. They nuirched into the midst of the fray inTennessee, (icorpia and other Southern States whichwere enpaped in their hloody war. They were expose!to the roughest weather; they wi-re often short of pro-visions; they enpaped in many hloody hattles, liut innot a sinjile one of them did they falter or hesitate todo their duty, even at the risk of their own lives. .\lthe haltle of I/jokout Mountain, for instance, the gen-eral had his urmv drawn into line, and he uskcd who. 12 Hisiory of Irvine and Estill County. Kentucky i|iUstioii, he said: It will lie oliscrvcl that the (olnrsof the Ei,,litli Koiriiiuiit (Vi>]. ]) is almost coni-pktely (kstrovcil. It was u])iic1(l amid showers of shotand shell hv Edgar Park, Company (, until the missilesof the too had pierced again and again its every the staff was struck and shivered to pieces. Theenemy was drawing close around the undaunted stand-anl lienriT. The broken staff could no longer be grasped. but In kly gathered the remnants of the nipidlv to those so nobly iiitreiiiilitv nirelv eiiualled and never passed. Herewith we ini ?<ent a picture of the
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