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The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1860., [Electronic resource], Death of the last survivor of the battle of Bunker Hill. (search)
nquired the cause of it.--His officer explained: "General Gates, General Burgoyne says he would rather take you for an old woman than a soldier.""Ah!" replied Gates, "does he? Well, perhaps I am an old woman — I delivered him safely of 10,000 men." The following letter, written by the old man in September last, in reply to the invitation from Governor Banks and others, shows that the weight of a century had not dimmed his faculties nor impaired his enjoyment of life: Acton, Me., Sept. 25, 1860. Mr. N. P. Banks, Mr. F. W. Lincoln, Jr., and others, Boston.--I have received your kind invitation to visit Boston, and I thank you for the honor you do me. When I listed in the American army, at the age of eighteen, I did not suppose I should live to be 104, and be asked by the Governor and Mayor and other distinguished people to visit Boston. It seems strange that out of all who were at Bunker Hill, I alone should be living. It appears to me, though so long ago, as if it was b