- unitid
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{"value"=>"275540", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 1210", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
- unitdate
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{"normal"=>"1779-05", "value"=>"Friday 1/2 past Eight P. M. May, 1779"}
- keydate
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1779
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to [Brig.-Gen. William Moultrie?]"}
- physdesc
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{"value"=>"A. L. S. Endorsed: \"From Major Butler, May.\" 3 pp. Fo", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Tells of a fatiguing pursuit and skirmish; his captures and the news they give him. The letter breaks off and is taken up again at Mr Ferguson's plantation, one o'clock; further news from the prisoners; asks for 1,000 light horse and a few negroes; fears that he will break down; Charleston is evidently the object of the enemy; women and children should be sent out of town, and Gen. Lincoln be hurried down; horses of the militia greatly fatigued; only fifty of the corps left."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Butler, Pierce (Doctor Clatheralls Horse Shoe, S.C.)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1779
- date_inclusive_end
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1779