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Nix Redding Center, Conn., is a small park preserved as a
Revolutionary Memorial; for here General Israel Putnam's soldiers had
theis winter quarters in 1778-1779. Long rows of stone camp fire-places
still remain to stir a child’s imagination. The hardships which the soldiers
endured and the agitation of a few hot-heads to break camp and march
to the Hartford Assembly for relief, is a part of Redding history.
‘Once upon a “4th of July,” somé time ago, so the story goes, a child
‘went there on a picnic, held under the auspices of the First Church and
the Village Cornet Band. Wandering away from the rest of the children
past the camp ground into the woods, he hopes to catch a glimpse of some
of the old soldiers. As he rests on the hillside of laurel and hickories, the
‘vanes of the band and the songs of the children grow fainter and fainter;
—when—“mirabile dictu”—over the trees on the crest of the hill he sees
a tall woman standing. She reminds him of a picture he has of the Goddess
of Liberty, —but the face is sorrowful—she is pleading with the soldiers
not to forget their “cause” and the great sacrifices they have made for it.
But they march out of camp with fife and drum to a popular tune of the
day. Suddenly a new national note is heard. Putnam is coming over the
hills from the center,—the soldiers turn back and cheer. The little boy
awakes, he hears the children’s songs and runs down past the monument
to “listen to the band” and join in the games and dances.
The repercoire of national airs at that time was meagre. Most of
them were of English origin. It isa curious fact that a tune very popular
with the American soldiers was “The British Grenadiers.” A captain
in one of Putnam's regiments put it to words, which were sung for the
first time in 1779 at a patriotic meeting in the Congregational Church
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