STORIES OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS
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Matthias Ogden
" Matthias Ogden was a brave colonel in the Continental Army and among the first in the field of military glory. He passed through the wilderness to Quebec with Arnold and was carried from the walls of that city severely wounded on the day of the unfortunate attack by the Americans. He served to the close of the war with credit to himself and usefulness to his country. Near the termination of the Revolution he was raised to the rank of brigadier-general. He was a man highly honorable in all things and under all circumstances,liberal, charitable and honest. He died at Elizabethtown N. J. on the 31st of March 1791."
Source: The Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson