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Details of a prisoner held by the Virginia "rebels"...
Details of a prisoner held by the Virginia "rebels"...
Item # 597517
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June 23, 1777
EDINBURGH EVENING COURANT, Scotland, June 23, 1777
* Rare Revolutionary War title
Page 2 has: "...fresh advices were received at Lord Germaine's office from General Howe at New York...that the proposals received from the Congress in America are inadmissible, some concessions being demanded which cannot be complied with." and: "...The overtures of an accommodation from America have certainly been made both to the commissioners at New York and to Administration; from Franklin and Deane at Paris..." and "...that General Howe had made no movement with the army. It was the current report at New York that the army could not take the field till the end of May or beginning of June; that they were in great distress for forage...that Jersey was a perfect desert...The Carolinians have as yet remained almost entire strangers to the ravages of war by land during the present dispute with America...It is thought that the provincials will not be in a hurry to put an end to a war which occasions so much money to be spent amongst them...".
Also a very interesting letter from a person captured by the Americans, which begins: "It would be needless to detain you with the rise & progress of the unhappy disputes subsisting between North American and the Parent State, these have been discussed long ago in the public papers by much abler pens than mine;--suffice it to say then, I was unfortunate enough to fall into the hands of the Virginia rebels on the 8th of February 1776 and continued in close confinement till the 30th of October following; in which time I suffered such marks of contempt & ridicule as might have been excusable in a savage enemy, but much below the dignity of a civilized people..." with details of his treatment (see).
Four pages, folio size, very nice condition.
Category: Revolutionary War
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