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left on the field, being unable to carry them and save himself from being made a prisoner. We thought it a hard case, and represented the facts in a letter to the proper department at Washington; but no attention was ever given to it, and the soldier suffered the loss. It was proposed by the selectmen of Plymouth, to call one of the earthwork forts, being erected in that town for the protection of the harbor, Fort Andrew, in honor of the Governor. On the 16th of March, he wrote to William T. Davis, chairman of the Board of Selectmen of Plymouth, as follows:— No fort as yet bears the name which your Board of Selectmen has so generously proposed for the larger fort now in progress in Plymouth harbor, nor had any ambition of my own ever suggested to my mind the possibility of becoming in that manner associated with such a work. I am deeply sensible of the honor; and, while I feel that it does not properly belong to me, I can only leave to you and your associates the final dec