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Excerpt from An Express of '76: A Chronicle of the Town of York, in the War for Independence
The General wrote with great care almost daily in his journal, always having a clean sheet of blotting paper between the pages. After his death the manu script, which had become voluminous, was packed in a cowhide trunk and stored for many years in the attic of the old house. In my father's time the chil dren had the run of the attic, and often, he said, rum maged the trunk and scattered its contents, which will account for the missing sheets having been thrown down the Open space of the garret weather-boarding. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
