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Saratoga
I'm sure you've heard of Tim Murphy, the rifleman who shot General Fraser off his horse at Saratoga. Murphy was in excellent company and there were many other riflemen who served under Morgan at the battle. Here's an account of how they devastated the British artillerymen:
I should get my manuscript back from my reader tomorrow and will start incorporating the final changes when I get home. Have to turn it over to someone for designing the book. As mentioned before, it will be double column format with endnotes instead of footnotes.
On Sunday (Tax Day), I'll be in Washington, D. C. for a couple of days of fun (read that as National Archives) and then I'll visit some battlefields in Virginia and to drop off some published articles of mine. The Company of Military Historians is holding its annual conference in Williamsburg and I'm attending that. So, between this Saturday (4/14) until Tuesday (4/24), I'll be off-line.
I'm sure you've heard of Tim Murphy, the rifleman who shot General Fraser off his horse at Saratoga. Murphy was in excellent company and there were many other riflemen who served under Morgan at the battle. Here's an account of how they devastated the British artillerymen:
“The royal Artillery suffered an astonishing loss in today’s action. One captain is dead; Captain Johns [Jones?] was fatally wounded and died therefrom the next morning. Brigade Major Captain Bloomfield was shot through the cheek, under the tongue. General Phillips’ other adjutants were almost all wounded, as were some of those of General Burgoyne. Somewhat more than thirty non-commissioned officers and cannoneers of the Royal Artillery were killed or wounded, of whom not a single man was less than five feet ten inches tall, all handsome individuals, of whom many died on the field of battle and were laid out in their true five feet eleven inches to six feet. Some lay still with, and some already without consciousness.”
I should get my manuscript back from my reader tomorrow and will start incorporating the final changes when I get home. Have to turn it over to someone for designing the book. As mentioned before, it will be double column format with endnotes instead of footnotes.
On Sunday (Tax Day), I'll be in Washington, D. C. for a couple of days of fun (read that as National Archives) and then I'll visit some battlefields in Virginia and to drop off some published articles of mine. The Company of Military Historians is holding its annual conference in Williamsburg and I'm attending that. So, between this Saturday (4/14) until Tuesday (4/24), I'll be off-line.