| Index Entry | Drum head, in White Plains, serves as writing desk for correspondent |
| Location | White Plains |
| Citation | PEP.776.067 31 Oct 1776:5481 (2/278) Extract of a letter from White Plains, dated Oct. 28, 1776, at two o'clock. [5 paragraphs on life in the American camp] The post being detained by desire of the General gives me an opportunity (with a wooden pen on a drum head) to acquaint you that the part of our army which was engaged today was a brigade commanded by Gen. M'Dougal, . . . |
| Generic Title | Pennsylvania Evening Post |
| Date | 1776.10.31 |
| Publisher | Towne, Benjamin |
| City, State | Philadelphia, PA |
| Year | 1776 |
| Bibliography | B0033998 |