Evening Star Newspaper, February 23, 1930, Page 80

secret of his presence within the British lines. From friendship, or a strange devotion to Hippocrasic. oath, the -dector did not disclose Bissel's identity. When his pétient recovered and the first opportunity for escap: presented itself the English surgeon aided Bissel to win his way through the lines. Within two days following his escape Bissel was seated in the headquarters at Newburgh drawing maps and die a document filled with information highly valuable to the American Army and telling the story of his year and one month within the British lines. On April 24, 1783, Brig. Gen. Greaton and a board of officers met at New Windsor to pass upon the qualifications of Churchill and Brown, who had been nominated by their officers ac deserving the Badge of Military Merit. findings of this court recommended to Wash- ington the fitness of these candidates, and on Sunday, April 27, the order was issued by Washington for them to “call at headquarters on the 3d of May when the necessary certifi- cates and badges will be ready for them.” The only record of the events at Newburgh " on May 3, 1783, is a eopy of Churchill’s citation in the hand of Jonathan Trumbull, and this another made and given to Churchill. Bissel's citation dates from June 8, 1783, and was dic- tated by Washington in his orderly book under that day. Upon Sergt. Elijah Churchill of the 2d Con- Hiding their boats in the hope that thoy might be able to win back to this base and escape before dawn, they commenced their march within the British lines. A 12-mile tramp over the rich lands and paved roads today is a far cry from the men within the closely-picketed EHTHH ] eéisfg T good would it do to tell you? shrugs 2 the little yoman, “The next time you were asked you'd probebly confuse it with the THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGT ON, D. C, FEBRUARY 23, 1930. at all ‘homes wheré the bridge is bad. Are you & well read woman?” “She ought to be,” declares Joe. * comes back Joe. lived . Tour or fine hundred years ago, and “Don't be so silly,” frowns the frau. “Ques- “ only I've “Pardon me for stepping into your Depart- ment of Domestic Affairs,” interrupts Joe, “but there’s quite a lot to this Q and A game. Only the otljer Jday I learned that there really are no China, but from East Norwalk, Conn., and that it's the bloater that comes from Yarmouth, and not the yarmouth that comes from Bloater, as I had been led to belleve in my youth?” “Very interesting,” murmurs Davis. *“Did you run across the fact that Titian died at 99?” . “That’s too bad,” says I. “Was he sick long?” “I heard it was rather sudlen,” returns Joe. “Well,” I shrugs, “he was a good kid when he had it. Some folks were quite prejudiced against him, but I was always for the old fel- “Longfellow didn’t write Paralise Lost,” cuts in Minnie. “It was written by Milton.” “Milton!” I exclaims, ‘Milton who?" “Just Milton,” says she. : “But it can't be just Milton,” I protests. “It must be Milton S— s s of Enfield; that he was 5 feet 9 inches in height, dark complexioned and had gray eyes,* This and that the. service of the swarthy gray-eyed young carpenter so distinguished him from his fellow patriots as to win from Gen. Washington the Badge of Military Merit. 'HERE are bronze tablets on houses and trees at Yorktown marking the bright points of that great battle, but no arrow tells where 3 young sergeant under Alexander Hamilton to served his country as to be singled out for the highest of military distinctions. Even the local legends have passed him by, and yet in the musty records of the nation we find that during the Battle of Yorktown, on the evening of the 14th of October, 1781, Sergt. Daniel Brown was ordered to take a detachment of men and precede the main attack upon the British lines. Like the shock troops of the late war, he was to- draw and sustain the first brung the enemy's fire and drive into their lines far as he might without waiting for sappers cut through the barricades and obstructions of as to evening of the 14th of October, 1781, conducted a forlorn hope with great bravery, propriety and deliberate firmness and that his general character appears unexceptionable.” S0 much and no more for Sergt. Daniel Brown. He appears to have shared in that great virtue of the Revolution, “firmness,” but even in that he was a little different, for his “firmness” was worthy to be qualified as “delib= erate.” What must have been a glorious, & breath-taking adventure is hidden in these few cryptic words. We are left to conjecture that the force held in readiness to follow him walked calmly into the position they had ex= pected to win only with great loss of life. Could there but have been some one to tell us more of the “forlorn hope” Daniel Brown “con= ducted.” There is romance in the phrase “fore lorn hope,” but there is also unforgivable reticence. Could there have been some cotemporary to have told fully the stories of these men or could the “book of merit,” with its complete list of those who won this decoration, be dis< covered even at this late day, we would have important names to add to the list of the country’s patriots. The full muster roll of those of the Purple Heart would make a legion of the true and the brave in which America might well take pride. But failing the full story, the §EFE g : i fish off flagpoles. Our next foray into the field of belles-lettres will concern itself with that greatest of indoor amusements—the musical evening. You, per- hape, will never find yourself so uninterested). (Copyright, 1930.) Records Set in Copper. Tnmosmmuuwmmaum,m many records were set, even breaking the high marks of the wartime production, More than 2,000,000,000 pounds of new cop- veraging around 17.775 o g Jaaw