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Excerpt from History of Chatham, New Jersey Opening of the Campaign of 1777; Maxwell's Activities; Washington at Morristown; Many of the Soldiers billeted in private Houses; Their Suffering from Disease and Famine; Pennsylvania and Rhode Island Troops at Chatham; General Sullivan stationed here; His Discontent; His Correspondence; Captain Bauman commands the Artillery at Chatham; His Perplexity caused by conflicting Orders General Stephen in command of the Post at Chatham; Reference to the Local Hospital; Stephen's Letters; Court-Martial held here; Chatham occupied by the Philadelphia Associators; Sergeant Young's Diary; Captain Henry Lee ordered to Chatham; Morgan's Rangers stationed here; Sullivan's unsuccessful Expedition against Staten Island The Second Continental Light Dragoons in Winter Quarters at Chatham; A Cavalry Sword unearthed on the Campground; Correspondence respecting the Cavalry; Letters of Governor Livingstone relating to the Overtures of the British Government Shepard Kollock and the New Jersey Journal; The Detention at Chatham of Generals Phillips and Reidesel of Burgoyne's Army, Prisoners of War; The Terms of Surrender at Saratoga; Controversy respecting is succeeded by Phillips; The captured Army imprisoned in the South; The Exchange of Phillips and Residesel negotiated; They ser out of New York on Parole - They are stopped at Elizabeth, Congress having refused to ratify the Exchange; They are removed to Chatham, and later to Bethlehem; They are ultimately released The "Hard Winter" of 1779-80; Choice of eligible Sites for the Army's Winter Quarters; Localities near Chatham Considered; A Position near Morristown selected; Passage of the Troops through Chatham; Their Hardships and Suffering in C& Lord Stirling's Expedition against Staten Island; Attempt to capture Washington; Courtship and Marriage of Ensign d'Anterroches Insubordination of the Troops at Morristown; Knyphausen invades New Jersey; Washington moves from Morristown to Chatham; He occupies the Short Hills before Knyphansen's Arrival; The British reach Springfield; The burn the Village of Conecticnt Farms; They retreat to Elizabethown Point; Clinton Springfield; Abandons the Enterprise; Wayne Moves to Chatham; Court-Martial of Doctor Shippen About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.