The American Monthly Magazine Author:Daughters of the American Revolution Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the dark picture; but who can fully appreciate the anguish, anJ heart-ache of that sorrowful time? Think of the bereaved wives, the fatherless children, the vaca... more »nt chairs, the desolate hearth stones, the wounds in human hearts, which neither the joys of victory nor the comforts of returning prosperity could ever heal! A cloud of sadness seemed to hang over the Ledyard family- Many of them filled early graves, and when in 1790 the form of Mrs. Ledyard was laid beside her husband's, she clasped in her arms the little son who was but ten days old when his father died, and but one surviving child followed her to the tomb. One could almost rejoice that so many of a family on whose devoted heads had rudely beat the storms of war, should thus early be united in the land of Eternal Peace. The crest of the Ledyard family bears an inscription, which translated reads: "Through the cross to the stars." That motto may once have been proudly borne by mailed crusader, or belted knight; but never more worthily, I am sure, than by that plain citizen of Groton, who with unflinching hands took up the cross of a supreme and terrible duty, and won the stars of earthly fame and immortal glory. FORT C.R1SWOLD. [Paper read by Mrs. Jennie J. B. Goodwin before the Minneapolis Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, on the one hundred and sixteenth anniversary of the Battle of Fort Griswold, at the home of Mrs. General Van Cleve, September 6. 1897.] The landing of the British ships at Groton, September 6, 1781, and the awful struggle which ensued at Fort Griswold between eight hundred British regulars (under the command of Colonel Eyer) and Colonel Ledyard's band of only one hundred and fifty men is too familiar to be re-told in detail. In an article written by Henry Robinson Palmer, h...« less