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CC-H.781.007
20 Feb 1781:22 (838)
Philadelphia, February 10. . . [28 lines, letter 24 January
1781 Greene to Congress explaining letter which follows
containing news of American successes at Cowpens]
Camp, near Cain-Creek, January 19, 1781. . . [88 lines,
battle at Cowpens] The enemy were entirely routed, and the
pursuit continued upwards of twenty miles. Our loss was
inconsiderable, not having more than twelve killed and sixty
wounded. The enemy's loss was ten commissioned officers,
and upwards of one hundred rank and file killed, two hundred
wounded, twenty-nine commissioned officers, and above five
hundred privates prisoners, which fell into our hands, with
two pieces of artillery, two standards, eight hundred
muskets, one travelling forge, thirty-five baggage waggons,
seventy Negroes, and upwards of one hundred dragoon horses,
with all their music. . . [27 lines]
A list of the commissioned officers in the action on the
17th of January 1781. . . [11 lines] Of the third battalion
of dragoons, Virginia. . . [4 lines] Cornet, Simmons, of
South-Carolina, [6 lines]. . . [39 lines, afterorders]
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