Captain Simeon Thayer's journal, combined with Mr. Stone's notes and appendix, represents a valuable resource in the study of Colonel Benedict Arnold's march through the wilderness to Quebec and the battle which there ensued. "The Journal of Captain Simeon Thayer makes no pretension to literary merit. It is written, doubtless, to keep fresh in the memory of the author the facts of his personal experience during his march through the wilderness to Quebec, as well as of his confinement while prisoner of war, without expectation of its ever appearing in print. It is here reproduced as it...