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Chapter 1 - INTRODUCTORY

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t some of the Americans, seamen and soldiers, who were so unfortunate as to fall into the hands of the enemy during the period

ished by thousands in British prisons and prison ships of the Revolution; it is because we are in danger of forgetting the sacrifice they made of their fresh young lives in the service of their country; because the story has never been adequately told,

like dead dogs, by their heartless murderers, unknown, unwept, unhonored, and unreme

ches, sugar houses, and other places used as prisons in New York in the early years of the Revolution, can now be discovered. We know that they were, for the most part, dumped into ditches dug on the outskirts of the little city, the New York of 177

gnition that we are giving them, and one that is most imperfect, yet it is all that we can now do. The ditches where they were interred have long ago been filled up, built over, and intersected by streets. Who of

be made to tell to the generations that succeed them who they were, what they did, and why they suffered so terribly and d

the waters of New York. This is because such information as we have been able to obtain concern

ng, for the assault made upon him at the outbreak of the war, when he and a companion who had made themselves obnoxious to the republicans were mobbed and beaten in the streets of New York. He was rescued by some friends of law and order, and locked up in one of the jails which

hall fill this volume. Perhaps others, far better fitted for the task, will make the necessary researches, in order to lay before the American people a statement of what took place in the British prisons at Halifax, Charleston, Philadel

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Contents

Chapter 1 - INTRODUCTORY Chapter 2 - THE RIFLEMEN OF THE REVOLUTION Chapter 3 - NAMES OF SOME OF THE PRISONERS OF 1776 Chapter 4 - THE PRISONS OF NEW YORK-JONATHAN GILLETT Chapter 5 - WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM, THE PROVOST MARSHAL Chapter 6 - THE CASE OF JABEZ FITCH Chapter 7 - THE HOSPITAL DOCTOR-A TORY'S ACCOUNT OF NEW YORK IN 1777-ETHAN ALLEN'S Chapter 8 - THE ACCOUNT OF ALEXANDER GRAYDON Chapter 9 - A FOUL PAGE OF ENGLISH HISTORY Chapter 10 - A BOY IN PRISON Chapter 11 - THE NEWSPAPERS OF THE REVOLUTION
Chapter 12 - THE TRUMBULL PAPERS AND OTHER SOURCES OF INFORMATION
Chapter 13 - A JOURNAL KEPT IN THE PROVOST
Chapter 14 - FURTHER TESTIMONY OF CRUELTIES ENDURED BY AMERICAN PRISONERS
Chapter 15 - THE OLD SUGAR HOUSE-TRINTY CHURCHYARD
Chapter 16 - THE CASE OF JOHN BLATCHFORD
Chapter 17 - BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND OTHERS ON THE SUBJECT OF AMERICAN PRISONERS
Chapter 18 - THE ADVENTURES OF ANDREW SHERBURNE
Chapter 19 - MORE ABOUT THE ENGLISH PRISONS-MEMOIR OF ELI BICKFORD-CAPTAIN FANNING
Chapter 20 - SOME SOUTHERN NAVAL PRISONERS
Chapter 21 - EXTRACTS FROM NEWSPAPERS-SOME OF THE PRISON SHIPS-CASE OF CAPTAIN
Chapter 22 - THE JOURNAL OF DR. ELIAS CORNELIUS-BRITISH PRISONS IN THE SOUTH
Chapter 23 - A POET ON A PRISON SHIP
Chapter 24 - "THERE WAS A SHIP"
Chapter 25 - A DESCRIPTION OF THE JERSEY
Chapter 26 - THE EXPERIENCE OF EBENEZER FOX. -
Chapter 27 - THE EXPERIENCE OF EBENEZER FOX (CONTINUED)
Chapter 28 - THE CASE OF CHRISTOPHER HAWKINS
Chapter 29 - TESTIMONY OF PRISONERS ON BOARD THE JERSEY
Chapter 30 - RECOLLECTIONS OF ANDREW SHERBURNE
Chapter 31 - CAPTAIN ROSWELL PALMER
Chapter 32 - THE NARRATIVE OF CAPTAIN ALEXANDER COFFIN
Chapter 33 - A WONDERFUL DELIVERANCE
Chapter 34 - THE NARRATIVE OF CAPTAIN DRING
Chapter 35 - THE NARRATIVE OF CAPTAIN DRING (CONTINUED)
Chapter 36 - THE INTERMENT OF THE DEAD
Chapter 37 - DAME GRANT AND HER BOAT
Chapter 38 - THE SUPPLIES FOR THE PRISONERS
Chapter 39 - FOURTH OF JULY ON THE JERSEY
Chapter 40 - AN ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE
Chapter 41 - THE MEMORIAL TO GENERAL WASHINGTON
Chapter 42 - THE EXCHANGE
Chapter 43 - THE CARTEL-CAPTAIN DRING'S NARRATIVE (CONTINUED)
Chapter 44 - CORRESPONDENCE OF WASHINGTON AND OTHERS
Chapter 45 - GENERAL WASHINGTON AND REAR ADMIRAL DIGBY-COMMISSARIES SPROAT AND
Chapter 46 - SOME OF THE PRISONERS ON BOARD THE JERSEY
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