Corporal 'Lige's Recruit: A Story of Crown Point and Ticonderoga

He had atoned for the mistake made when they first set out on the journey, although it was really none of his, and, in addition to having prevented the news of what had been don...

Nathan, who had looked upon the men under Colonel Allen much as he had Corporal 'Lige, was literally amazed by this ready submission of the king's troops, standing silent and mo...

Master Edward Mott and Noah Phelps, forming a committee appointed by the Provincial Assembly of Connecticut, had arrived on the previous evening charged with an important commis...

Isaac was in high glee at thus being permitted to visit headquarters, for even though he went there only by permission of Corporal 'Lige and not because his presence was desired...

It was not necessary Farmer Beman should urge Corporal 'Lige to make haste in this matter which had been intrusted to him, for the old soldier understood full well how necessary...

Isaac's heart beat hard and fast when he and Nathan were thus left with but a single man to guard them, for he believed the time had come when they might succeed in turning the...

When Isaac was come within hailing distance of the few sentinels who had been posted to guard against a surprise, he was astonished at being halted after having announced who he...

It was as if he stood alone amid the recruits, now that Corporal 'Lige had been claimed, so to speak, as leader of the Pittsfield faction, and the lad needed some one to whom he...

Surely this camping by themselves was exceedingly pleasant, Isaac thought, as the old soldier took upon himself the duties of cook, leaving his recruit with nothing to do save w...

When these raw recruits departed from the town--Corporal 'Lige insisted that they did not march--they were followed for several miles by nearly all the men and boys in the vicin...