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Pioneers of the Old Southwest

CHAPTER IX
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The day after, I had been telling this story to some wounded officers, who lay in the same room with me, when one of the surgeons who had been dressing the wounded rebel officers came in and told us that they had been informing him that General Washington was all the morning with the light troops, and only attended by a French officer in hussar dress, he himself dressed and mounted in every point as above described.

I AM NOT SORRY THAT I DID NOT KNOW AT THE TIME WHO IT WAS." * *Doubt that the officer in question was Washington was expressed by James Fenimore Cooper.

Cooper stated that Major De Lancey, his father-in-law, was binding Ferguson's arm at the time when the two officers were seen and Ferguson recalled the order to fire, and that De Lancey said he believed the officer was Count Pulaski.

But, as Ferguson, according to his own account, "leveled his piece" at the officer, his arm evidently was not wounded until later in the day.

The probability is that Ferguson's version, written in a private letter to his relative, is correct as to the facts, whatever may be conjectured as to the identity of the officer.


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