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Excerpt from Letters From Francis Parkman to E. G. Squier: With Biographical Notes and a Bibliography of E. G. Squier With what was left of this same regiment, he followed Arnold again at Stillwater in that famous charge that altered the fortune of the day and led to the surrender of Burgoyne. Putnam, Parsons, and Webb were his friends, and he was a trusted agent on more than one difficult detail from Gen eral Washington himself. He served until the end of the war, and, returning to his farm, lived until he had passed his ninety-seventh year in 1842. Joel Squier, father of E. G. Squier, was a Meth odist clergyman, and the income of a wandering minister of that faith did not permit much outlay for tuition, so the boy educated himself between periods of farm labor and attended such schools as the rural districts afforded. He became a teach er first and then qualified as a civil engineer, but the panic period of 1837 rendered this occupation unprofitable. He turned to literary work and in 1841 became a special writer on the newspapers at Albany, and as his first independent venture edited The Poets' Magazine; a Repository of Original and Selected American Poetry. But two numbers, April and May, 1842, were issued. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.