Citation - Pennsylvania Packet-Philadelphia: 1781.11.06

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Index Entry Bugle horns, in Yorktown, spoils of war, taken from British 
Location Yorktown 
Citation
PP-P.781.108
6 Nov 1781:21-32 (10/803)
Extract of a letter from General Washington, dated Head-
Quarters near York, October 27, 1781.
General Return of Officers and Privates surrendered
prisoners of war, the 19th of October, 1781, to the allied
army under the command of his Excellency General Washington,
taken from the original muster rolls.
General and Staff, . . . 
Artillery, . . . 4 Drums, . . . 
Guards, . . . 12 Drums, . . . 
Light Infantry, . . . 13 Drums, . . .
XVIIth Regiment, . . . 13 Drums, . . . 
XXIIId Regiment, . . . 
XXXIIId Regiment, . . . 9 Drums, . . . 
XLIIId Regiment, . . . 16 Drums, . . . 
LXXIst Regiment, . . . 9 Drums, . . . 
LXXVIth Regiment, . . . 18 Drums, . . . 
LXXXth Regiment, . . . 20 Drums, . . . 
Two Batt. Anspach, . . . 25 Drums, . . . 
Prince Hereditary, . . . 11 Drums, . . . 
Regiment de Bose, . . . 16 Drums, . . . 
Yagers, . . . 1 Trumpet, . . .
British Legion, . . . 7 trumpeters, . . . 
Queen's Rangers, . . . 5 Trumpeters, . . . 
N. Carolina Volunteers, . . . 
Pioneers, . . . 
Engineers, . . . 
Loyal Foresters, . . . 
3d New-Jersey Volunteers, . . . 
New-York Volunteers, . . .
Virginia Volunteers, . . . 
King's American Regiment, . . . 
Gen. Delancy's Batt., . . . 
N. Carolina Ind. Comp., . . . 
Taken on the 24th and 26th of October, . . . 
TOTAL, . . . 179 Drums and Trumpeters, . . . 
Return of Ordnance and Military stores taken at York and
Gloucester in Virginia, by the surrender of the British army
on the 19th of October, 1781.
[List of ordnance, ammunition, and military stores]
. . . Drums good, 62, damaged 19-- total 81
Drum-slings 18, 
Fife-cases 10, 
Fife-slings 7, 
Trumpet 1, 
Bugle-horns 18, 
French-horns 5, total 23. . . 


Generic Title Pennsylvania Packet-Philadelphia 
Date 1781.11.06 
Publisher Claypoole, David C. 
City, State Philadelphia, PA 
Year 1781 
Bibliography B0040763
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