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Marching back , the fifes and drums played ` Soldiers ' Joy . ' I had forgotten to stop my ears , and heard them . `` On Tuesday rain fell . News came at noon that Indians had surprised and killed thirty-six haymakers near Fort Schuyler ; and that other Indians had taken fifteen or seventeen of our men who were gathering blueberries at Sabbath Day Point . Whereupon Colonel Gansevoort immediately marched for Canajoharie with his regiment , which had but just arrived ; and in consequence Betty Bleecker and Angelina are desolate . `` As you see from this letter , we have left Croghan 's new house , and are living at Otsego in a fine Bush House , and near to the place where Croghan 's old house stood before it was destroyed . `` Sunday , after an all night rain , clear skies ; and all the officers were being schooled in saluting with the sword , the General looking on .