'Tis hard to distinguish which is which.
Joseph Plumb Martin, then 16 years old, relates the panic among the American troops as they were about to face the overwhelming British invasion in Brooklyn, August 23, 1776.
"I saw a Lieutenant who appeared to have feelings not very enviable... for he ran round among the men of his company, sniveling and blubbering, praying each one if he had aught against him, or if he had injured any one that they would forgive him, declaring at the same time that he, from his heart, forgave them if they had offended him, and I gave him full credit for his assertion; for had he been at the gallows with a halter about his neck, he could not have shown more fear or penitence."
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