Citation - Constitutional Gazette: 1775.12.23

CG-NY.775.024
23 Dec 1775:31 (42)
General Lee's letter to General Burgoyne, On his Departure
for England.
Camp at Prospect Hill, Dec. l, l775. . . Would you, Sir, if
in the heat of passion you had struck a simple drummer of
your regiment, and afterwards discovered that you had done
it unjustly, think it any forfeiture of your dignity to
acknowledge the wrong?  No, I am well acquainted with your
disposition, you would ask him pardon at the head of your
regiment. . .