The Wallkill Valley in art and story . ve-ly asserted that Brant carried off a number ofchildren as prisoners. Happily, for the truthof history as well as humanitys sake, a pris-oner, the only one captured, Capt. John Wood,of the Goshen company of Col. Tustens reg-iment, left behind him a journal of the eventsfollowing the battle, and his journey while acaptive with Capt. Brant, as he terms him,and those under him, to the Indian country,which disposes of the question to the this journal well sustains Brants officialreport of the Minisink raid and battle, in whichhe says, we in no
The Wallkill Valley in art and story . ve-ly asserted that Brant carried off a number ofchildren as prisoners. Happily, for the truthof history as well as humanitys sake, a pris-oner, the only one captured, Capt. John Wood,of the Goshen company of Col. Tustens reg-iment, left behind him a journal of the eventsfollowing the battle, and his journey while acaptive with Capt. Brant, as he terms him,and those under him, to the Indian country,which disposes of the question to the this journal well sustains Brants officialreport of the Minisink raid and battle, in whichhe says, we in no wise injured women orchildren. It is the desire of the author of this mono-graph to refrain from any discussion of theMinisink battle, as that properly belongs to awork now in course of preparation for thepublisher. Yet it may be remarked that, since Goshensfirst commemoration of that event, which wasthe subject of an article in the Souvenir of 1898,much has boon brought out which reveals atale of the cowardice and flight of a portion. IOSEPH BRAN! i.\M NDANEG1 tions, from the original painting in Romnej. In the collection of the Bai I ol Warwick Ene. • •f the forces which marched to oppose BrantImenl to annihilation. it, no less characteristic ol Brant, is preserved h:; accompanied a returned captive girl, in which he says: d winch In numbers exceeded those of the latter, and thus left a letter written by him to Gen. Van Ren-I send you by one of my runners, the 2 2
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