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PEP.777.115
16 Sep 1777:4791 (3/405)
Extract of a letter from Major Gen. Gates to the President
of Congress, dated Head-Quarters, Sept. 3, 1777.
[Letter encloses letters from Burgoyne and Gates]
[Letter from Burgoyne to Gates]
September 6, 1777.
Sir,
I received your letter of the second instant, and in
consequence of your compliance with my proposal of sending a
surgeon to visit the wounded officers in your hands, and
some servants to carry money and necessaries to their
masters, and to remain with them, I have now to desire the
favour of you to despatch the officer you design with a drum
and a flag of truce, so that he may arrive at Stillwater
about noon, on the ninth, and he shall be met there by the
persons he is to conduct, accompanied also by a drum and a
flag of truce.
. . . [7 paragraphs on other military matters]
[signed] J. Burgoyne, L.G.
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