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- GLC#
- GLC03413
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 24 September 1780
- Author/Creator
- Parsons, Samuel H., 1737-1789
- Title
- to Benjamin Huntington
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 3 p. : address : docket ; Height: 22 cm, Width: 18 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Brigadier General Parsons complains about insufficient provisions and decreasing numbers of troops, in which he did not see "in the present Temper of the Country a possibility of recruiting them again. Rails against Congress and the promotion of General Smallwood (to Major General after the Battle of Camden), which he took as a personal offense because his own service was overlooked.
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