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IL.778.024
30 Nov 1778:22 (1/25)
[New York] General Keppel was very much offended with the
officer who first gave the command on Sunday morning, for a
general alarm; and he has published an order, that no alarm
shall in future be given for the men to turn out, unless it
comes from one of the Generals of the Camp. In this order,
he takes occasion to express his approbation of the Army in
general, in regard to the alacrity and spirit with which
they obeyed the summons of the drum; and he compliments the
regulars in particular, for the silence and good order they
observed. . . [23 lines]
When the regiments in the line were permitted to return
to their tents, and at least ten minutes after all was over,
the Welsh drums in the rear begun the tattoo, and to fill up
the harmony, the fifes assisted, they were most melodiously
joined by the voices of the asses, who in every adjacent
field were in quick respondence sending forth their wood
notes wild, which served as a desert to the preceding feast,
and made the concert die away with the most musical close.
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