** Lieutenant James Gibbon, who commanded one of the "forlorn hopes," was finally promoted to major. He died at Richmond, Virginia, on the first of July, 1834, in the seventy-seventh year of his age. His remains were interred with military honors.
King's Ferry.—Jolly old Waterman.—Stony Point.—Evening walk toward Haverstraw
CHAPTER VIII.
"From Cain to Catiline, the world hath known
Her traitors—vaunted votaries of crime—
Caligula and Nero sat alone
Upon the pinnacle of vice sublime;