This Day in History: August 9

William Barton, Lieutenant, 1st NJ, Sheshequin, "Out of provision and very faint for want of it; the boats which carry it did not arrive until nine or ten o'clock the next morning; having marched fourteen miles with very little to eat. The woods for some distance before we came to this place, are chiefly white oak, and very open, grown up with wild pea vines, &c. In this days march we had several cattle killed by falling from a precipice, having about half a mile to pass along one of two hundred feet, and the path very bad. At the bottom, luckily, was the river, the boats on coming up had them dressed." [More]