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NHG-P.780.007
7 Oct 1780:33 (1250)
Exeter. October 7. Extract of a letter from an Officer in
the Army to his Friend in this Town.
In my last I gave you the particulars of General Poor's
death, on the morning on his interment; what followed, I now
give you--We removed him from Paramus, where he died, to
camp near Hackensack, and put him in an elegant black-walnut
coffin; at four o'clock, P.. the procession began, which was
as followed:
1. The whole brigade of light infantry, fifes and drums, and
a compleat band, playing alternately a dead march.
2. The artillery annexed to his brigade.
3. A body of cavalry.
4. The chaplin.
5. His riding-horse in his usual caparison, with his boots
and spurs fixed hanging a-cross the horse reversed, led by
his servant.
6. The corps, his pistols and sword on the coffin.
7. All the officers of his old brigade.
8. All the officers of his new brigade.
9. Almost every officer in the army.
So grand a procession never known in our army.
. . . [10 lines describing the burial]
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