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��3 Officers, 1 Private, prisoners, 4

Privates, killed, 5

" missing, 7

16 Loss of Col. Alexander Scammell's Regiment [3d New Hampshire], July 7, 1777: Serg. Isaac Davis, Boscawen, killed. Private James Gibson, Canterbury,

killed. " Eleazer Emerson, Goffstown,

killed. " Wm. Pope, Jun., Hillsborough,

killed. " Andrew Buzzell, Barrington,

killed. " John Forsyth, Chester, wounded,

and died July 10, 1777.

" Ichabod Lovewell, Dunstable,

died from wounds, July 14, 1777.

" Wm. Britton, Westmoreland,

died from wounds, July 15, 1777.

" Daniel Rodgers, Rochester, died

July 20, 1777. " Benjamin Rawlings, Concord, died July 15.

��Private Abraham Chase,Plaistow,miss- ing. " Thomas Hale, Rindge, missing.

Wn^***- k 2 1 Scammell's

Killed and died from V T> Pffiin p nl. wounds, 10 JKegiment.

12

Col. Cilley's Reg't, 16 Col. Hale's ** 29

��Total,

��57

��We are strong in the belief that the loss of New Hampshire men on that day, as imputed by Belknap, is exaggerated. As before stated, nearly all the prisoners, both officers and privates, resumed their old places or ranks, while nearly all the missing were finally found among the dead. This statement of the loss approx- imates to certainty, and is more favora- ble to us than the accounts of past his- tory.

��BE MINIS OUNCES AND ANECDOTES OF DANIEL WEBS TEE

BY FETEB HABVEY.

��BY PROF. E. D. SANBORN.

��The three orations delivered by Mr. Webster on the origin and development of our nation, one at Plymouth and two on Bunker Hill, are among the choicest specimens of oratory in the world's his- tory. Their historical value can hardly be over-estimated. The orations of De- mosthenes and Cicero may have excited the deepest emotions of sympathy and admiration in the hearts of their contem- poraries, but to us they are chiefly valued as monuments of genius. The audiences addressed, the arguments employed, the results produced belong to the dead past; the occasions that called them forth can only be revived by the aid of history and imagination. The great orations of Web- ster are national, historical and pathetic. They reveal the origin, progress and de- velopment of our own blood-bought in- stitutions. The Pilgrim fathers have never been more truthfully portrayed

��than in the address entitled " The Settle- ment of New England." The addresses delivered on Bunker Hill recite, in peri- ods of surpassing beauty, the achieve- ment of American independence. Our literature has been permanently enriched by them ; and had Mr. Webster never opened his lips on any other occasion, these three orations would place him among the foremost orators of all times and stories.

The address at Plymouth closes thus : " Advance, then, ye future generations ! We hail you, as you rise in long succes- sion to fill the places which we now fill, and to taste the blessings of existence where we are passing and soon shall have passed our own human duration. We bid you welcome to this pleasant land of our fathers. We bid you welcome to the healthful skies and verdant fields of New England. We greet your succes-

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