described in the closing chapters of our first volume, they proceeded
directly to Cambridge, where the revolutionary army was then gathering
for the siege of Boston, enlisted, for two years, into the continental
service; and actively participated in all the most important movements
of the army in the campaign that immediately succeeded. They were at
Bunker Hill, on that memorable day of fire and blood, so glorious for
the yeoman patriots of New England, and so fearful for her foes,--

"When first, as at Thermopylae,
The battle shout of freemen rose;
Firm as their mountains, and as free,
They nobly braved encountering foes."

And in the following autumn, they, in the same company, in which
Woodburn, for bravery and good conduct, had been made a subaltern
officer, marched with that division of the army which Arnold, with
almost unequalled energy and fortitude, and amidst privation and
suffering untold, led through the snow-clad wilderness of morass and
mountain, to the distant Quebec. And there, in the onset, in which the
high-souled Montgomery fell, they were together cut off from their
company and made prisoners; when, after having, for nearly a year and
a half, endured the sufferings of a British prison-ship, they together
escaped at Halifax, wandered, half naked and starving, through the
seemingly interminable forests of Brunswick and Maine, to the American
settlemens, and finally reached home; not there, however, long to
repose, but soon to repair, with yet unbroken spirit, to the new scene
of action, at which their countrymen were beginning to rally to meet
the formidable invasion of the hitherto victorious Burgoyne.

We will now resume the thread of our narrative. A walk of twenty or