Produced by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) JOURNAL OF DR. ELIAS CORNELIUS, A REVOLUTIONARY SURGEON. GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF HIS SUFFERINGS WHILE A PRISONER IN PROVOST JAIL, NEW YORK, 1777 AND 1778, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. PUBLISHED BY JUDGE CHARLES M. TOMPKINS AND CHESTER T. SHERMAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. 1903. PRICE, FIFTY CENTS, POSTPAID. JOURNAL OF DR. ELIAS CORNELIUS, A REVOLUTIONARY SURGEON, AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. Copyright, 1902, By Chester T. Sherman. JOURNAL OF ELIAS CORNELIUS, M. D., _Surgeon's Mate in the American Revolutionary Army_, While a Prisoner to the British in the Provost Jail, New York, 1777 and 1778. AUGT. 22, 1777.--This morning I marched down to East Chester with the main body of our troops in that division Viz. Gen Varnum's Brigade of Continental troops & Gen Ward's of Conneticut Malitia where we went and surprized one of the Enemies Piquets and took two officers and some privates with some Tories & Negroes. After that I went with our two guides and Dr Tunison of the General Hospital, and seized some stores that was within the Enemies Lines and kept for their use. After that (which was about two o'clock P. M.) the Gen thought proper to send out Piquet Guards. Capt Y Alden of Col Samuel B. Webbs Regiment, was detached, with about fifty men to command the advanced Piquet on the left, near West Chester. Capt David Dexter of Israel Angell's Regiment was detached with the same number of men to command the advanced Guards on the right at Miles Square. I, wishing to be where most was to be done, rode down with Capt Dexter. He stopped at Miles Square; but seeing a body of men at a distance on the right towards North River, not knowing who they were I sat out with a determination to find out. I had gone but half way when I met Col Dammond.