human
Where did _you_ ever hear such details?
gpt
People told me. Besides, the house is full of New York newspapers. You may read them if you wish. I often do. Many details of the fight are there.
human
Reading such things out of old newspapers published at the time certainly must bring those events very vividly before you.
gpt
Yes. . . . It is painful, too. The surprise and rout of Sheldon's 2nd dragoons--the loss of their standard; the capture, wounding, and death of more than two score--and--oh! that young death there in the wheat! the boy lying in the sun with one arm across his face and the broken pistol in his hand! and his wife--the wife of a month--dragging him back to this house--with the sunset light on his dead face!
human
To _this_ house?
gpt
Tarleton's troopers came stamping and cursing in by that very door after they had burned Judge Lockwood's and the meeting house--but they left her alone with her dead, here on the floor where you and I are standing. . . . She was only seventeen; she died a few months later in child-birth. God dealt very gently with her.