tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post8246145793055500036..comments2024-03-28T04:26:30.557-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: “A Chaplain...Insisted on Performing Service”Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-14074418428181245782008-12-10T20:29:00.000-05:002008-12-10T20:29:00.000-05:00PILE the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.Sh...<A HREF="http://www.bartleby.com/104/78.html" REL="nofollow">PILE the bodies high</A> at Austerlitz and Waterloo.<BR/>Shovel them under and let me work—<BR/>I am the grass; I cover all.<BR/> <BR/>And pile them high at Gettysburg<BR/>And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.<BR/>Shovel them under and let me work.<BR/>Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:<BR/>What place is this?<BR/>Where are we now?<BR/> <BR/>I am the grass.<BR/>Let me work.Robert J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12937384579138400443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-69652005275172109122008-12-10T20:07:00.000-05:002008-12-10T20:07:00.000-05:00First of all, if I were out in the hot sun, diggin...First of all, if I were out in the hot sun, digging a redoubt while cannon balls and shot fell around me, I might not dig <I>another</I> hole, even if I liked the guy. I might take advantage of the earth already being moved and bury him that way. <BR/><BR/>As for whether a headless corpse would still be there, we know that the British army buried bodies on the field shortly after the battle, and that the locals dug up bodies after the siege ended. So this body could have been moved at either of those times. <BR/><BR/>We also know that Charlestown is one of most densely developed parts of Boston, with only the top of Breed’s hill preserved—as long as we don’t count the foundation for a very tall stone obelisk. So that construction could have disturbed the body. <BR/><BR/>Finally, we know the first impromptu burial involved no coffin, much less embalming. So even if the corpse was never disturbed, I doubt it’s in the sod. I think it <I>is</I> the sod.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-23012810201851745692008-12-10T17:48:00.000-05:002008-12-10T17:48:00.000-05:00What do you suppose happened to the body? Is is st...What do you suppose happened to the body? Is is still under the Charlestown sod?Robert J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12937384579138400443noreply@blogger.com