The Minute Boys of York Town

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For the Liberty of Texas With Taylor on the Rio Grande Under Scott in Mexico
DANA ESTES & COMPANY Publishers Estes Press, Summer St., Boston

IT WAS A SIGHT WELL CALCULATED TO STIR THE BLOOD OF A BOY FROM VIRGINIA.
BOSTON DANA ESTES & COMPANY PUBLISHERS Copyright, 1912 By Dana Estes & Company All rights reserved THE MINUTE BOYS OF YORK TOWN PRESS OF THE VAIL-BALLOU CO. Binghamton, N. Y.

When Uncle 'Rasmus loses his temper because of some prank which we lads of James Town may have played upon him, he always says that no good can ever come of that in which chillun an' women are mixed.
It had never entered my mind that there was in such a remark any cause for anger on my part, until that day when Saul Ogden repeated it, shaking his head dolefully as Uncle 'Rasmus always did, and speaking in the negro dialect so faithfully that one, not seeing him, might well have supposed his skin was black.
Of course you remember the engagement at Spencer's Ordinary, which place is the same as if I had said Spencer's Tavern, on the 26th of June in the year of Grace 1781, when Lieutenant-Colonel Simcoe of the Queen's Rangers, and Lieutenant-Colonel Tarleton with his Legion of Horse, began to prance around here, as Uncle 'Rasmus would put it, and we Virginians were disturbed in more ways than one.
There were a number of our people who would have been loyal to the king if Governor Dunmore had not written himself down such a consummate ass, and many even at this time whose sympathies were all with the struggling colonists, but who yet hoped matters could be settled without loss of honor to either side, meaning that the so-called rebels and his majesty might come together in friendship once more.
But when this prancing began; when Colonel Tarleton rode rough-shod over our people of Virginia without seeming to understand the meaning of the word humanity, then it was that even those who had hoped against hope that the colonies might remain in peace and harmony with the mother country, began to realize it was no longer possible.