Drums Along the Mohawk

by Edmonds, Walter D.

• ISBN13: 9780815604570
• ISBN10: 0815604572
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-02-01
• Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr

Summary

Here is the story of the forgotten pioneers of the Mohawk Valley during the Revolutionary War. Here Gilbert Martin and his young wife struggled and lived and hoped. Combating hardships almost too great to endure, they helped give to America a legend which still stirs the heart. In the midst of love and hate, life and death, danger and disaster, they stuck to the acres which were theirs, and fought a war without ever quite understanding it. Drums Along the Mohawk has been an American classic since its original publication in 1936. This Syracuse University Press edition reprints the book in its entirety.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD	xi	(4)
FRANK BERGMANN
AUTHOR'S NOTE	xv
BOOK I THE MILITIA	3	(296)
I GILBERT MARTIN AND WIFE, MAGDELANA: 1776	3	(17)
II DEERFIELD: 1776	20	(122)
1 The Peacock's Feather	20	(8)
2 Captain Demooth	28	(6)
3 The Farm	34	(5)
4 Muster Day	39	(9)
5 Arrest	48	(13)
6 Blue Back	61	(6)
7 Talk at Night	67	(4)
8 Trial	71	(10)
Fate of Wolff	81	(21)
10 Nancy Brings a Note	102	(5)
11 Blue Back Hunts a Buck	107	(7)
12 Logrolling	114	(6)
13 Catastrophe	120	(4)
14 Little Stone Arabia Stockade	124	(8)
15 Winter	132	(10)
III ORISKANY: 1777	142	(64)
1 Council Fire	142	(5)
2 Mrs. McKlennar	147	(9)
3 A Prayer	156	(2)
4 Unadilla	158	(9)
5 Proclamation	167	(6)
6 Muster	173	(4)
7 March	177	(16)
8 Battle	193	(13)
IV STANWIX: 1777	206	(72)
1 The Women	206	(8)
2 Gil	214	(5)
3 At Herkimer Fort	219	(9)
4 Marinus Willett	228	(5)
5 Nancy Schuyler	233	(6)
6 Tories at Shoemaker's	239	(10)
7 Death of a Brigadier	249	(10)
8 Arrival of a Major General	259	(4)
9 Relief of Stanwix	263	(6)
10 Dr. Petry Sees Two Patients	269	(9)
V JOHN WOLFF'S JOURNEY: 1777	278	(21)
1 The Cavern	278	(3)
2 The Drainage Level	281	(6)
3 The Hammer	287	(4)
Niagara	291	(8)
BOOK II THE DESTRUCTIVES	299
VI GERMAN FLATS: 1777-1778	299	(130)
1 Paid Off	299	(9)
2 The Snow	308	(6)
3 March Thaw	314	(9)
4 Fairfield	323	(4)
5 At Demooth's	327	(5)
6 Mrs. Demooth	332	(10)
7 The Indian	342	(7)
8 Smoke	349	(4)
9 Night on the Farm	353	(7)
10 Andrustown	360	(12)
11 Adam Helmer's Run	372	(11)
12 A Night -- and a Morning	383	(15)
13 Brief Activities of the Military	398	(3)
14 Prospects	401	(20)
15 By Cherry Valley	421	(8)
VII ONONDAGA: 1779	429	(57)
1 March 1779	429	(7)
2 Drums	436	(7)
3 At Fort Stanwix	443	(10)
4 Blue Back's Troubled Mind	453	(7)
5 The Expedition	460	(3)
6 Destruction of the Long House	463	(13)
7 The Hard Winter	476	(10)
VIII McKLENNAR'S: 1780	486	(53)
1 Jacob Casler's Tax Problem	486	(13)
2 Deodesote	499	(6)
3 In the Valley	505	(9)
4 Terror by Night	514	(25)
IX WEST CANADA CREEK: 1781	539	(43)
1 The May Flood	539	(6)
2 Return of Marinus Willett	545	(4)
3 The First Rumor	549	(10)
4 The Last Muster	559	(11)
5 The Two Camps in Jerseyfield	570	(6)
6 John Weaver	576	(6)
X LANA: 1784	582