Interview with Miller, Hannah Mabie
They passed our house, and I begged Totten to stop and let me dress his wound, as from seeing wounded men treated by the army surgeons I had a little knowledge of the healing art, but that officer refused saying it was a mere scratch and he must go on to Morrisania. Green's wound was in the head. During a considerable part of the war the advanced post of the American army was kept at my aunt Brewers. When Colonel Thompson was defeated at Youngs house, his advance guard was there and had to retreat through the snow and join their detachment by making a
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12 297 [margin: 1845] circuit, the direct roads being occupied by the enemy. After the British retreated the wounded were found around the house crying out for water, and such as could crawl a short distance drinking the snow-water which had been melted by the conflagration. Bearmore had the reputation of being severe and harassing, and even the American guides sometimes plagued us very much. Colonel Isaac Hatfield was from Crompond, and of good repute. Colonel Van Cortlandt and Major Fish quartered at Mrs. Brewers. The Generals Lee and Gates and McDougall at different [times] had their Head- Quarters at aunt Annetjie Millers. Andre's captors had splendid dinners given them by General Washington and his officers at or near White Plains. Masin and his men also after their celebrated defence were treated with
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298 15 [margin: 1845] [margin: ?] dinners at White Plains &c. Isaac Oakley, brother in law of Cornelius who owned the public house opposite to the Court House (Willis's) was an American officer. General McDougall had in the army a son named Stephen. I remember two lines of a song written during the war, in which he and some other officers were lampooned: "And as to Steve McDougall, he's a noisy, saucy clown, And of the greatest black-guards that walks about the town."
298 15 [margin: 1845] [margin: ?] dinners at White Plains &c. Isaac Oakley, brother in law of Cornelius who owned the public house opposite to the Court House (Willis's) was an American officer. General McDougall had in the army a son named Stephen. I remember two lines of a song written during the war, in which he and some other officers were lampooned: "And as to Steve McDougall, he's a noisy, saucy clown, And of the greatest black-guards that walks about the town."