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(REVOLUTION.) Crosby, Ebenezer. Autograph Letter Signed, to Norton Quincy, detailing General Wayne's surprise attack and victory at the Battle of Stony Point, and mentioning General Sullivan at Wyoming. 2 1/4 pages, folded tall 4to sheet; dampstained, separations at folds, hole from opening. New Windsor, 16 July 1779
"Between twelve and one this morning, General Wayne with his Corps of Light-Infantry consisting of two thousand brave fellows surprised and took the Enemy's Fort on Rockey-Point at King's Ferry with the loss of only three or four men kill'd and a few wounded. Genl Wayne himself received a light wound in his fore-head from a musket ball . . . our happiness on this occasion tho the event is truly great and important in itself is much increased by its being so entirely unexpected . . . It has been the prevailing opinion that the fort was so strong as not to be taken without the loss of a great number of men, which undoubtedly would have been the case had it not been surprised." The Battle of Stony Point was the last significant battle in the North, and although Washington abandoned the fort a few days later, the victory was seen as a morale booster to the weary Continental Army. Crosby, the author of this letter, served as a surgeon under George Washington.<
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