Capt. Henry Dearborn was with Arnold's expedition from the start. His journal begins as the sloops are coming into the harbor where they start marching. He passed some places that we would recognize today like: the "Schoega Falls"/Skowhegan falls, the Father Rasle massacre site, the Dead River and many more. In his journal he talks about all the hardships that he and his company had to go through. Throughout the entire time he had a persistant headache and fever but never gave up. He also kept a happy attitude throughout most of the journey dispite the fact that men were dropping off like flies.
At Fort Western he witnessed the shooting of a man by a drunk. The man that was shot died and the drunken man was sent back to Washington, his fate to be determined back in Cambridge. His name was James McCormic. He actually died on the way back to face Washington.
In the journal account, it seemed like forever as they marched on and on and many men did starve and many died. They just marched and marched and nothing really intersting happened in the journal. They arrived at Quebec on November 7th where they "lay low" at an inn at Point Levi.
Here Is A Portrait Of Arnold
