ANTHONY WAYNE AND THE PENNSYLVANIA LINE IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. BY CHARLES J. STILLÉ, " PRESIDENT OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA. PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY. PREFACE. It has often been remarked by students of American history (in this part of the country at least) that in both popular and standard works on the Revolutionary and pre-Revolutionary eras there is a singular failure to give any adequate account of the part taken by Pennsylvania in the struggles of those days, or of the influence of her statesmen and soldiers in moulding the national policy. Impressed with a belief that such opinions are not without foundation, and with the hope of calling the attention of students to what I venture to term certain "lost" chapters of our American history, I prepared some time ago a biography of that illustrious Pennsylvania statesman JOHN DICKINSON,-a man who for various reasons is little known to this generation, but who, in the formative period of our history, so guided the policy of the country that his controlling influence is readily recognized as shaping that policy from the date of the Stamp Act to that of the Declaration of Independence. With the same object in view I now present another chapter of that neglected history, that which relates to the achievements of a most distinguished soldier of Pennsylvania,-GENERAL ANTHONY WAYNE, The materials for a memoir of General Wayne, 257459 which are exceedingly abundant and valuable, have been preserved with great care by his family, and are now deposited with the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. A study of these papers has enabled me to give to the public a full and, I hope, a trustworthy account of the career of General Wayne. These papers embrace copies of the letters written by him during his campaigns, or rather the rough draughts of those letters, letters received by him from the most eminent personages of the Revolution, and many other documents illustrating his life. My object has been to allow these letters to tell their own story, connecting them only by such an account of the events of the time as may seem necessary to explain the true value and character of General Wayne's achievements and those of the men he commanded,-for the most part officers and soldiers of the Pennsylvania line. On the death of General Wayne in 1796 his papers passed into the possession of his son, Colonel Isaac Wayne. Colonel Wayne was a man deeply imbued with filial reverence for the memory of his father, and with a very high conception of the glory which he had achieved by his military exploits. In 1829 he printed in a magazine called "The Casket" a brief memoir of his father, illustrated by numerous letters of the general, then, for the first time, made public, which were at once recognized as extremely valuable and interesting contributions to our Revolutionary history. Not satisfied with this, however, he asked at different times two of his friends, the HON. CHARLES MINER and the HoN. JOSEPH J. LEWIS, of West Chester, to complete the work which he had begun. Neither of these gentle |