Continued on this ground in order to dry our clothes (which had got wet the night before), and the men to furbish their arms, &o. This day one of our soldiers belonging to the fourth Reg't, Penna., was taken deserting to the enemy. At 3 o'clock P. M. he was tried and sentenced to be shot, which soon he received in the evening at roll-call. At the same time we received orders to strike our tents, which we did, and marched at dark in order to surprise Tarleton's Horse (12 miles.) He got intelligence of our advancing (which he always had, more than we) and retired—12 miles. James City County.
SOURCE: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Publisher, Journal of Lieut. William Feltman, of the First Pennsylvania Regiment, 1781-82, p. 5
