(GREEN SPRINGS BATTLE OF) STEWART WALTER Autograph Letter Si

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(GREEN SPRINGS, BATTLE OF.) STEWART, WALTER. Autograph Letter Signed, as Colonel of a Pennsylvania militia regiment, to Brigadier General George Weedon, reporting on his narrow escape in the Battle of Green Springs. 1 page, folio; small seal hole affecting one word. "Camp Goods Bridge" [Amelia County, VA], 27 July 1781

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Stewart was serving under Anthony Wayne, and earlier that month had narrowly escaped doom with Wayne at the Battle of Green Springs, charging through a vastly superior British force to freedom. Stewart here refutes a rumor that had reached Weedon about the battle: "The idea of my being wounded arose from my being almost cover'd with blood by riding a wounded horse. . . . It was certainly the warmest and most severe fire I was ever in, and I think we very fortunately escap'd as we did." Quoted in Ward, Duty, Honor or Country, page 204.