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A cut in the joint of the elbow rendered an amputation oi the arm necessary Assoon as this was resolved on. the general i sent for his wife, with a request that she j would bring with her all the money that she j had in her possession, with ail that she ? could procure, which was complied with,and he had it distribued among the American prisoners to alleviate their sufferings;. thus turnishing a lesson of humanity to his I enemies* and closing a useful life by an actof charity.j He then suffered the amputation, which i soon issued in a mortification, which ter-nnnaicd h\s life at the age ofp4.The general left only one efiild, who is now living on her paternal estate at Mastic, and is the widow of the late Gen. JohnSmith, deceased.* is said that one of the.battalions employed in this inglonous warfare against an unresisting individual, or aome other one, was commanded by a Major Crew, a distant kinsman of the general, and that when hefame to be apprised of that tact, and of the circumstances of the case, he was so mortified, that he either resigned ins commis-‘ sign and quit the service, or obtained permission to leave the army, and returned toEngland.i The military talents and experience of■Gen. Wood hull were superiouc to most of ;the early officers ot the revolutionary army, j His zeal for the cause of American freedomI would necessarily have led him to continuej in the military service, and no man in this( State, at that period, promised more distinguished useluluess.
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Sag Harbor Corrector
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Sat, May 05, 1827
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