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NYJ-P.781.012
19 Nov 1781:123 (1919)
Philadelphia, November 6. General return of officers and
privates, surrendered prisoners of war, the 19th of October,
1781, to the allied army, under the command of his
Excellency General Washington, taken from the original
muster rolls. . . [Numbers by regiment listed, then by rank,
including] 179 drums and trumpeters. . . Amounting in the
whole, to 7247. N.B. By an estimate collected by the
Adjutant-General, the killed, during the siege, including
officers, amount at least to 309, and the deserters 44.
(Signed) Thomas Durie, Depy.Com.Prisoners. . . [This is
followed by the captured money, "military chest", and the
return of stores, firearms, etc., including] Drums good 62,
damaged 19. Total 81; drum slings 18, fife cases 10, fife
slings 7, trumpet 1, bugle horns 18, French horns 5. Total
23 [horns]. . . (Signed) H. Knox, commanding the artillery
of the United States.
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