480 Journal and Correspondence

C. S. C,

[J. Pine to J. Tilghman.]

Camp at White Plains Nov. 7^th 1776.
Dear Sir.
I arrived here on Monday the 28^th of last month about 4 in
the afternoon while our people were engaged in a very hot
battle, the particulars of which I suppose you'l hear before
this comes to hand. Col. Smallwood's battalion suffered a
good deal, the Col. himself wounded in two places, the
number of killed and wounded, as the Report is in the Camp,
amounts only to about 90, but from the wounded I saw
myself in the hospital, and adjacent houses, there must at
least be an hundred and twenty or thirty wounded the number
of killed I dont know. The day after I came here I waited
on Doctor Morgan Director General of the Hospital here, for
medicines &c he told me he had nothing to say to the Mary-
land troops, and that it was not his business to supply the
Regimental surgeons with medicines, and that it must have
been a mistake of the convention or Council of Safety of
Maryland, to send their surgeons here without them and think
they were to be supplyed here. Upon this I went to Col.
Smallwood who is about 15 miles from this, near the hospital
and told him the case, and what condition I found the sick in
both the Regular and Flying Camp Maryland troops without
the least morsel of Physick of any sort, although a great
many of them in a very piteable condition, upon which the
Col. gave me a letter to Doct. Morgan, the Doct. then told
me I might have some few things, if I could go to Newark
for them, which is about 80 miles from this. I told him by the
time I went there and got back, that the time of most of the
Maryland Troops would be expired, he told me he could not
help it, and that medicines were very hard to be got. I should
be glad this matter was communicated to the Council of
Safety. Since I came here I have been of what service I could
to the Maryland Troops, all their Surgeons are over in the
Jerseys with their sick, and a great number are still sick here.
The companies to which I was appointed are not yet come
here nor can I hear any thing of them. I am just now with
Col. Smallwood's Battalion and Independent Companies, I go
up to day to the Flying Camp, who are about 16 miles from
this to enquire into the state of their sick and see if I can, by
any possible means get some medicines for their relief. I
should be glad you let me know first opportunity whether I
am to continue here, or how I am to proceed if these com-
panies do not come up. The Enemy went off from this night
before last, it is conjectured they are to attack Fort Wash-
ington, which is about 20 miles from this & then go into