"Return of Killed, Wounded and Missing of the following Corps on the 6th.
September 1781"
Detachment of Artillery: 0
Hessian Jagers: 2 rank & file wounded, 5 rank & file missing.
38th Regiment: 2 rank & file wounded; 1 rank & file missing.
40th Regiment: 1 major, 1 ensign, 1 sergeant and 28 rank & file
killed; 1 captain, 1 lieutenant, 1 ensign, 2 ser-
geants, 1 drummer and 49 rank & file wounded,
54th Regiment: 1 sergwant and 14 rank & file killed; 1 Lt. Colonel,
1 captain, 1 lieutenant, 1 ensign, 6 sergeants,
1 drummer and 67 rank & file wounded.
3rd New Jersey Volunteers: 0.
Loyal American Regimt.: 1.rank & file killed; 2 rank & file wounded.
American Legion: 1 rank & file killed; 1 captian and 5 rank & file
wounded; 2 rank & file missing.
Total: 1 major, 1 ensign, 2 sergeants, 44 rank & file killed.
1 lt. colonel, 3 captains 2 lieutenants, 2 ensigns,
8 sergeants, 2 drummers and 127 rank & file wounded.
8 rank & file missing.
Names of Officers killed and wounded.
40th Regiment: Major William Montgomerie)
Ensign Archibald Whillock) Killed
Captain George Craigie )
Lieutt. H. William Smyth) Wounded and since dead
Ensign Thomas Hyde )
54th Regiment: Lieutt. Colonel Edmund Eyre)
Captain Richard Powell )
Lieutt. Thomas Daunt ) Wounded
Ensign William Rainsforth )
Volr. James Boyd )
American Legion: Captain Samuel Wogan - Wounded
On Board the Shuldham
8th September 1781
(Signed) JOHN STAPLETON Acting
as Major of Birgade
SOURCE: Great Britian, Public Record Office, Colonial Office, Class 5, Volume 103, page 311
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