Dr. Walker With Braddock And Washington

Troops At Fort Necessity In Pennsylvania Near Braddock's Defeat Location

Source

"The year 1755 proved an eventful one in his life and some scattered notes found among his papers enable us to trace with certainty his occupations and movements at that time."

"In the beginning of the year he was at and near Winchester, in the valley of Virginia, lending vigorous aid to the preparations which were then making to break through the line of fortifications which the French were drawing from Canada, obliquely across the continent, in order to check the western march of British domination."

"A correspondent of Dr. Walker living at Fredericksburg, Virginia, in a tattered, but still preserved, letter joyfully expresses himself as follows under date of the 28th of the same month a few weeks after the catastrophe."