Note 57 — XVI. THE MORNING DRUMBEAT.
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Longfellow in his poem has Revere riding on to Concord bridge.
“It was two by the village clock, When he came to the bridge in Concord town.”
Revere’s account reads:—
“We had got nearly half way; Mr. Dawes and the Doctor stopped to alarm the people of a house. I was about one hundred rods ahead when I saw two men, in nearly the same situation as those officers were near Charlestown. I called for the Doctor and Dawes to come up; in an instant I was surrounded by four.... We tried to get out there; the Doctor jumped his horse over a low stone wall and got to Concord. I observed a wood at a small distance and made for that. When I got there, out rushed six officers on horseback and ordered me to dismount.”