"Evacuation Day", 1783, Its Many Stirring Events: With Recollections of Capt. John Van Arsdale, of the Veteran Corps of Artillery, by Whose Efforts on That Day the Enemy Were Circumvented, and the American Flag Successfully Raised on the BatteryRiker, James
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"Evacuation Day", 1783, Its Many Stirring Events: With Recollections of Capt. John Van Arsdale, of the Veteran Corps of Artillery, by Whose Efforts on That Day the Enemy Were Circumvented, and the American Flag Successfully Raised on the Battery
Riker, James
Evacuation Day, New York, N.Y., 1783; Van Arsdale, John, 1756-1836
John Brooks. James Mitchell.
John Lamerey. John Armstrong.
Henry Cunningham. Peter Gillen.
John Crooks. Edward Tomkins.
William Penoyer. Randle House.
Simon Currens. *Christian House.
Israel Cushman. Isaac Hoffman.
Asa Ramsey.
*Joel Curtiss.
Thomas Harten. _Col. Hammon's_, Zachariah Taylor.
Jesse Carpenter. _Col. Drake's_, John Vantassel.
Benjamin Simmons. _Col. Holme's_, Cornelius Cornelius,
Isaac Cooly. William Randle.
Joshua Currey. _Col. Ogden's_, Thomas Cook.
James Thompson. _Col. Antill's_, Jonathan Nichols.
Stephen Clark.
CORPS UNKNOWN.
John Donalds. Tobias Lent.
Joseph Mead. George Depew.
George Peck. Auris Verplank.
Jesse Lockwood. Albert Vantass.
WAGONERS.
John Randle. *Jacob Morris.
Elias Vanvolver. *John Tallow.
Samuel Anderson.
N. B.--The ten with a star are named in a list preserved by Col. Wm.
Faulkner, but are not in that furnished Gov. Clinton, by Joseph Loring,
British Commissary of Prisoners. McArthur returned to his regiment, the
other nine are not found again.
[30] GEN. LAFAYETTE, upon his last visit to this country, arrived at
Staten Island, on Sunday, August 15, 1824. Capt. Van Arsdale had a
grandson born on the same day. The next morning on landing at the
Battery, the General was received by the Veteran Corps, and passing
along the line, took each member cordially by the hand. Coming to Capt.
Van Arsdale, he looked him intently in the face, as if he knew him, yet
was not quite sure. But the instant the Captain alluded to his service
in the Light Infantry Corps, the General's countenance lightened up, and
there was a full recognition. "Van Arsdale," said he with emotion, as if
the glorious past was flushing his memory, "Van Arsdale, I remember you
well!" Going home, pleased beyond measure, that the General should
recollect him, after a lapse of forty-four years, Capt. Van Arsdale went
to see his little grandson, and being desired to give him a name, called
him _John Lafayette_. This was the late Col. J. Lafayette Riker, of the
62d New York Volunteers, who in defense of the flag for which his
grandsire sacrificed so much, nobly laid down his life at the battle of
Fair Oaks, May 31, 1862.
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