Manuscripts

Orderly book of the 71st Highland Regiment of Foot (Fraser's Highlanders)

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Description: A battalion orderly book covers Prevost's raid. The first entry, April 27, 1779, was penned when the British forces concentrated at Ebenezer, Ga., about to cross into South Carolina; the last is dated June 15, five days before the British victory of Stono Ferry. The orders cover different aspects of the campaign: logistics; Southern loyalists; numerous Negro slaves who "horly resorts to the army," and particularly "great want of Dissiplen." The orders for May 29 noted that "the Batt[alio]n is now become so notorious for maurauding & plundering White & Negroe women of all Denominations, the men absenting themselves from camp day & night without leave asked or given," that the commanding officer had to call on other officers to "to exert their authority in support of their own character & at least to preserve some part of that character given to Scotsmen on the field."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1779, April 27-June 15.
Call number: mssHM 72267
Creator: Great Britain(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC, Feb. 11, 2010.
Restrictions: Readers are requested to use digital copy in the Huntington Digital Library. Access to the original restricted due to fragility.
Dimensions: 17 cm :
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