The Indian mutiny : and in particular a narrative of events at Cawnpore, June and July, 1857 / by J. Lee.

  • Lee, J
Date:
[1893]
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Credit: The Indian mutiny : and in particular a narrative of events at Cawnpore, June and July, 1857 / by J. Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In returning my thanks, I had almost forgotten the BrigaJier of the Elgin Mills Brigade, who proposed to send me to the top of the Elgin Mills chimney to get a bird’s-eye view of Cawnpore ; J, however, begge i to be excused the journey because I had already accompanied my couutryman, Mr. McRobert, to the terrace of the third story of the Cawnpore Woollen Mills which was the height of my ambition that morning. In this notice ot my friends in Cawnpore there is one individual who deserves a whole chapter to himself : that is the immortal Joe Lee, and I must devote the rest of this chapter to informing the readers of the “ Statesman” “ HOW I DISCOVERED JOE LEE, My old friend Dobbin, of 1857. I had never seen Joe Lee, nor heard of him to the best of my belief. When J revisited Cawnpore on the 19th August 1892, I then heard ot'him from several gentlemen resident there, and I may as well say at once that the general opinion was, that Joe Lee was addicted to expanding the trutn with regard to what he liad seen of the events of the Mutiny of 1857, Some enemy had spread a report that Joe had not actually seen anything of Cawnpore and the scenes which he so graphically described till long after, because he had been, so his enemy had said, left in h.ispit d iu Dum-Dum when the 53rd was Seut to the front for the relief of Lucknow ; and, when I was informed that Joe Lee stated ihat he had formed one of Havelock’s Brigade and had entered Cawnpore only a few hours after the massacre of the women and children, I was inclined to believe it more than likely that I would find Joe Lee more or less a liumbug. I, therefore, agreed to give the results of my observations regard- ing Joe Lee’s knowledge of actual events, So far as l bad wit- nessed iliem myself, and could consequently check the correctness of the siatemeuts. I, accordingly, returned through Cawnpore