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A SEAMAN'S JOURNAL
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The remainder was evidently composed from descriptions given by officers after their return to Fort Cumberland:[1]
Extracts from
A Journal of the Proceedings of the Detachment of Seamen, ordered by Commodore Kepple, to Aſsist on the late Expedition to the Ohio with an impartial Account of the late Action on the Banks of the Monongohela
- ↑ In the Gordon Journal, under the date of June 10, there are two entries. One seems to have been Gordon's and reads: "The Director of the Hospital came to see me in Camp, and found me so ill . . . I went into the Hospital, & the Army marched with the Train &c., and as I was in hopes of being able to follow them in a few days, I sent all my baggage with the Army." Without doubt this was Gordon's entry, as no sailor could have had sufficient baggage to warrant such a reference as this, while an engineer's "kit" was an important item. Then follow two entries (June 24 and 26) evidently recorded by one who remained at Fort Cumberland, and a second entry under the date of June 10, which is practically the first sentence of the entry under the same date in the original manuscript, and which has the appearance of being the genuine record made by the sailor detained at Fort Cumberland. The confusion of these entries in the Gordon Journal makes it very evident that one author did not compose them. The two entries for June 10 are typical of "Mr Engineer Gordon" and an unknown sailor.
