The enemy having
landed on Long Island, our brigade was paraded and ordered thither. After
leaving our camp, the order was modified — one-half to proceed to Long Island,
the remainder to be in readiness to follow at a moment's notice. The First
Battalion together with our musketry, and the Delaware Blues, went to the
island and we were ordered to our tents.
SOURCE: “Diary of
Lieutenant James McMichael,” William H. Egle, Editor, Pennsylvania
Archives, Second Series, Vol. XV: Journals and Diaries of the War of the
Revolution with Lists of Officers and Soldiers, 1775-1783, pp. 197-8
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