. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. ames at the intercession of Mrs. Moul-ton, an aged woman of over eighty. The garret contained aquantity of powder, which would, in exploding, have destroyedthe houses in the vicinity. Colonel Shattucks was also ahiding-place for public property. The inhabitants, though sulky, certainly behaved with address and self-possession inthe emergency in which they found themselves. All this time the storm without was gathering head. Thetroops had entered the town at seven. It was now nearly tenoclock. So far the British had little reason to complain oftheir
. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. ames at the intercession of Mrs. Moul-ton, an aged woman of over eighty. The garret contained aquantity of powder, which would, in exploding, have destroyedthe houses in the vicinity. Colonel Shattucks was also ahiding-place for public property. The inhabitants, though sulky, certainly behaved with address and self-possession inthe emergency in which they found themselves. All this time the storm without was gathering head. Thetroops had entered the town at seven. It was now nearly tenoclock. So far the British had little reason to complain oftheir success, but in reality the provincial magazines had metwith trifling injury. A magnetism easily accounted for conducted our footstepsalong the half-mile of well-beaten road that leads to the site ofthe battle-ground, as it is called. A shady avenue, borderedwith odoriferous pines and firs, parts from the road at thewestward side and leads you in a few rods to the spot. Briefly,this was the old road to Carlisle, which here spanned the river. THE RETREAT FROM CONCORD. 387 by a simple wooden bridge resting upon piles. The passage ofthe bridge was secured by Smiths orders, who did not omit topossess himself of all the avenues leading into the town. Adetachment under Captain Parsons, of the lOtli, crossed thebridge and proceeded to the house of Colonel Barrett, a leaderamong the patriots, and custodian of the Colony stores. Cap-tain Laurie of the 43d had the honor to command the troopsleft to protect the bridge. The monument is built of Carlisle granite, the corner-stonehaving been laid in 1825 in the presence of sixty survivors ofthe battle, who listened to an eloquent word-painting of theirdeeds from the lips of Everett. The Bunker Hill MonumentAssociation aided greatly in advancing its erection. The pil-grim, as in duty bound, reads the inscription on the marble tab-let of the eastern face : — Here On the 19th of April, 1775, was made the first forcible resistance to British A
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