BIB_ID
105266
Accession number
MA 488.121
Creator
Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786.
Display Date
1781 Oct. 21.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 45.2 cm
Notes
Docketed.
This item is part of a collection of letters and documents concerning the siege of Yorktown and the surrender of Cornwallis; see main record for MA 488-489 for more information.
This item is part of a collection of letters and documents concerning the siege of Yorktown and the surrender of Cornwallis; see main record for MA 488-489 for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan from the New York dealer Joseph F. Sabin, 1907.
Summary
Mentioning a letter about Col. [Edward] Carrington; telling him that they have had "a most distressing campaign"; complaining of a lack of supplies and "numberless inconveniences"; commenting on their "want of Tents," canteens, axes, and artificers; asking him to send them "at least fifty or sixty artificers more"; congratulating him on their happy prospects in Virginia.
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