“The Yankee author (for that he is a Yankee, no one can doubt, who observes
with what vraisemblance he uses the vernacular idiom of that people)
has given a very amusing detail of the facts connected with that struggle,
which cannot fail to prove entertaining.”

“The characters are extremely well drawn—the Yankee talk and manner
well preserved—and the historical narrative faithfully followed. It is evidently
the work of a full and well disciplined mind.”