All the rest at different times
made their escape from the enemy.
"I now found myself on parole, and restricted to the limits of the
city of New York, where I soon projected means to live in some measure
agreeable to my rank, though I was destitute of cash. My constitution
was almost worn out by such a long and barbarous captivity. * * * In
consequence of a regular diet and exercise my blood recruited, and my
nerves in a great measure recovered their former tone * * * in the
course of six months.
"* * * Those who had the misfortune to fall into the enemy's hands at
Fort Washington * * * were reserved from immediate death to famish and
die with hunger: in fine the word rebel' was thought by the enemy
sufficient to sanctify whatever cruelties they were pleased to
inflict, death itself not excepted. * * *
"The prisoners who were brought to New York were crowded into
churches, and environed with slavish Hessian guards, a people of a
strange language * * * and at other times by merciless Britons, whose
mode of communicating ideas being unintelligible in this country
served only to tantalize and insult the helpless and perishing; but
above all the hellish delight and triumph of the tories over them, as
they were dying by hundreds. This was too much for me to bear as a
spectator; for I saw the tories exulting over the dead bodies of their
countrymen.
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