...would not return unmolested. The flower of the town had marched away. The old men and boys could not restrain themselves. They followed on, and the women waited. Abigail Brooks, the wife of Rev. Edward Brooks , bade her husband good-by as with gun on his shoulder he rode off toward Lexington. Outstripping those on foot, he pressed forward to Concord, and was in the fight at the bridge. Here he saved th...