In the morning,
before relief came, had the pleasure of seeing a drummer mount the enemy's
parapet, and beat a parley, and immediately an officer, holding up a white
handkerchief, made his appearance outside their works; the drummer accompanied
him, beating. Our batteries ceased. An officer from our lines ran and met the
other, and tied the handkerchief over his eyes. The drummer sent back, and the
British officer conducted to a house in rear of our lines. Firing ceased
totally.
SOURCE: J. B.
Lippincott & Co., Publisher, The Record of the Court at Upland, in
Pennsylvania. 1676 to 1681. And a Military Journal Kept by Major E. Denny, 1781
to 1795, p. 248
