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- GLC#
- GLC06504
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 23 October 1780
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to William Smallwood
- Place Written
- Fort Lee, New Jersey
- Pagination
- 2 p. : address : docket ; Height: 34.4 cm, Width: 20.8 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Written by Brigadier General Knox, the Continental Army's chief of artillery, to Major General Smallwood of Maryland. Letter sent through General Nathanael Greene. Asks how he is sustaining the fatigues and hardships of war in a southern climate. Says it must be "agreeable in some degree, as it has produced you such a harvest of Glory." Mentions gallantry of the Maryland Line at the Battle of Camden. Asks to "prospect my love" to General Nathaniel Gist and other friends. Smallwood's brigade was actually swept to the rear by a flood of fugitives at Camden, but he still earned the "thanks of Congress." Written in camp
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