posts. But
we managed to get across the river again with very little
loss, only eight men killed and wounded, and three prisoners.
I made a narrow escape, for I heard a bullet whistling by my
ear as close as it could, without hitting. All well at home, I
hope. Tell Sally not to forget to knit me a supply of woollen
stockings, and a couple pair of mittens for next winter, for I
dread the idea of another Valley Forge; and give her and Ann
my kind love.

"From your affectionate son,
"ANDREW KEMP."

My object in giving this _introductory_ letter is to show Mr. William B.
Reed that the treachery of his grandfather was understood by the army at
large, and that the knowledge of it was not confined to a few leading
officers. _Documents of a more precise, specific, and important character_,
are in my possession, or within my means of access; and shall seasonably
appear; but, unlike "_McDonough_," I do not choose to put my best foot
foremost, and limp ever aftewards[TN]. I subjoin another letter from
Sergeant Kemp, for the edification of Mr. Reed.

_"Monmouth Court House, N. J., July 2d, 1778."_

"Dear Mother,--I am laid up again, but after the fatigues of a
great battle, and a great victory, which we fought on the 28th
of June,--James Maris, who had his hand shattered by a
bullet, has leave of absence for four weeks; and I drop a few
lines by the opportunity which his going gives me. God be
thanked, we have had a glorious victory! The British troops,
commanded by Sir Henry Clinton, and ours by General
Washington, were nearly matched--say ten thousand each. We
fought from the forenoon till nigh dark; and our whole loss,
killed and missing, is short of seventy, while the British
lost about three hundred, and among them one Colonel Monks or
Monkston. I have no great time for particulars. The men
behaved very nobly; and the morning after, when we found that
the British had decamped over night, the General [Washington,]
thanked us all, from horseback. But one thing there is which
has occasioned much disturbance among us. I mean the conduct
of General Lee, who attempted to retreat, and who has since
been put under order, to be court martialed.

"Then there's that General Reed has been behaving very
strangely again. Not a