Then, there was the story of Sgt. Richaed Vining whose company was ordered to intercept a large British force threatening a small town in Massachusetts: "All the officers refused to go above me in command, and none would (of the enlisted men) go except (if) some of the officers would go with them. I finally told the captain that if the fifer would play a tune, I would follow him and see how many would volunteer to go with me.
"We had no drums. The following persons volunteered and went with me to Scopus, to wit: Nathaniel Hubbard, Benjamin Baldwin, David Kibbe, Jr., Abijah Hubbard, John Kibbe and Isaac Finch."
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