Category: History - American

Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle, as She Saw it from the Belfry

'T is like stirring living embers when, at eighty, one remembers All the achings and the quakings of "the times that tried men's souls;" When I talk of _Whig_ and _Tory_, when I tell the _Rebel_ story, To you the words are ashes, but to me they're burning coals.