Monday, September 28, 2026

Journal of Lieutenant William Feltman, August 12, 1781

This day a soldier of the Virginia Eighteen Months' Men was executed for entering the tent of Capt. Kirkpatrick, of 3d Regiment, and shooting him in the left eye.

This day I sent the following letters by Lieut. Crawford: One to Lieut. Johnson, one to Capt. Busk, of our Regiment, one to my mother, (No. 3,) one to my brother App. (No. 1.)

SOURCE: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Publisher, Journal of Lieut. William Feltman, of the First Pennsylvania Regiment, 1781-82, p. 9

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