Parsons, Samuel H., 1737-1789 to Benjamin Huntington
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03413 Author/Creator: Parsons, Samuel H., 1737-1789 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 24 September 1780 Pagination: 3 p. : address : docket ; 22 x 18 cm. Order a Copy
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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