. The first American Civil War, first period 1775-1778, with chapters on the continental or revolutionary army and on the forces of the crown . al he cameback on the 15th and remained with us until the i6th, on whichday he was obliged to rejoin his troops. This is the date of theaffair at Bennington ; cf. also Vol. I. pp. 277-278. 320 FIRST AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ch. xv,i The camp women disseminated farther afield thegossip of the officers wives, so that the Americanseasily discovered everything worth knowing. It does not appear that the spirits of the army werein the least degree dashed by the di
. The first American Civil War, first period 1775-1778, with chapters on the continental or revolutionary army and on the forces of the crown . al he cameback on the 15th and remained with us until the i6th, on whichday he was obliged to rejoin his troops. This is the date of theaffair at Bennington ; cf. also Vol. I. pp. 277-278. 320 FIRST AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ch. xv,i The camp women disseminated farther afield thegossip of the officers wives, so that the Americanseasily discovered everything worth knowing. It does not appear that the spirits of the army werein the least degree dashed by the disasters and losses atBennington, or the derelict condition of the de Riedesel had an enormous coach made totake not only herself and her three children, but her twofemale attendants, her bundles of light summer dresses,and other flimsy accoutrements of a ladys summercampaign. Moving about an hours ride behind head-quarters, she followed in the midst of the troops, whosang and longed for victory. The march lay through September endless forests and a beautiful district, and so forward 13, »777- to heights above CHAPTER XVIII SARATOGA Meanwhile remarkable changes had come over theaffairs of the American Army of the North, as Congresscalled it. General Schuyler, earlier in this campaignwith a phantom of an army, found himself quite in-adequate to resist successfully the British and the four sister forts had fallen intoBurgoynes hands ; the grand boom above Ticonderogahad been destroyed, large accumulations of stores hadbeen captured or dissipated, with the consequence thatCongress and its partisans were much cast down inspirit, and began to look about for a victim for theappeasement of the popular wrath. It has alreadybeen mentioned that General Philip Schuyler was ofan ancient New York family: to an aristocrat bydescent, a patroon by inheritance, and a gentlemanby taste and feeling, the hostility of the NewEnglanders was unappeasab
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