Excerpt from Washington's Young Aids: A Story of the New Jersey Campaign, 1776-1777I have endeavored in this story to give my readers a reason-ably correct picture of the struggle in New Jersey during the campaign of 1776-7. The old records have given me authority for the setting of all portions of the story, for there is nothing recorded hcre for which a counterpart in history cannot be found.The messengers General Washington sent to General Lee, the retreat and advance of the patriot forces, the life on the prison-ships and in the prison-houses of New York, the raids of the pine robbers, the emptying of the Hessians, the end of Fagan and his band, are all taken from the records, and there is nothing in the story which might not have occurred in the struggle.I have endeavored also to be true to the character of the leaders, and have written nothing concerning Washington, Greene, Mercer, Knox, Glover, and others, on the one side, and Lee and Gates on the other, that history does not warrant. The bravery and heroism of some appear the more clearly in contrast with the pettiness and treachery of others.If my readers shall enjoy the story, and gain a deeper conception of the struggles of our forefathers, and be led thereby to prize more highly the heritage which to-day is theirs, I shali fcel that my labor has not been in vain.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.