New Hampshire Statesman And State Journal

AMERICAN GENERALS.

Washington was a surveyor, and in after life a farmer. 'Expressive silence! muse his praise.' Knox was a book-binder and stationer. Morgan (he of the Cowpens) was a drover,—Tarleton got from him a sound lecture on that subject. Greene was a blacksmith, and withal a Quaker, albeit through all his southern campaigns, and particularly at the Eutaw Springs, he put off the outward man. Arnold—(I ask pardon for naming him in such company)—was a grocer and provision store keeper, in New-Haven, where his sign is still to be seen, the same that decorated his shop door before the revolution. Gates, who opened Burgoyne's eyes to the fact that he could not 'march through the U. States with 5000 men,' was a 'regular built soldier,' but after the revolution a farmer. Warren, the martyr of Bunker Hill, was a physician, and hesitated not to exhibit to his countrymen a splendid example of the manner in which American physicians should practice when called on by their country. Marion, the 'old Fox' of the South, was a cow boy. Sumter, the 'fighting cock' of South Carolina, was a shepherd's boy.—More anon.