entirely in a number of statements made concerning
the incidents of the engagement. There ia cerfaunly
no positive proof to contradict Foeait's statement, and
it is not surprising that at his great ^e he should
have forgotten many of .the facte of the transaction,
dating back fifty years or more. There is nothing
more probable than that Tom Fossit, angered by
the stubbornness of the commander who was deter-
mined to sacrifice the army to his foolish ideaa of
fighting Indians, should have been impelled to this
deed by revenge and hatred, when he witnessed the
taking of his brother's life. Hon. Andrew Stewart,
yf- when quite a boy, had
heard Fossit assert that
he shot Braddock, and
at that time his story
was generally accepted
as the truth, as it still
is, by nearly all the peo-
ple living in that part
^yZ of Pennsylvania, who
have treasured up the
h legends pertaining to
S the ill-fated expedition.
The place of Brad-
dock's sepulture was
within a few yards of
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a small stream, the banks of which abruptly sloped down to the water, and distant about two miles — westwardly — from Fort Necessity. The grave was made immediately in the road, about a stone's throw from the present National Road. When the march
