Excerpt from Historical Register, Vol. 1: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical, Relating to Interior Pennsylvania, for the Year 1883
When Gen. Burgoyne advanced against Gen. Gates, Gen. Washington sent Butler's rifles from the banks of the Delaware to protect the flank and rear of Grates from the Indians under Brant; and after participating most efficiently and successfully in the battle of Saratoga, October, 1777 were ordered back to vvashington's head-quarters. The same regiment distinguished itself at the battle of Monmouth, June, 1778, and when Gen. Washington, in a dispatch to Congress, animadverted on the conduct of Gen. Charles Lee on that occasion, he also stated that Col. Butler's was the Only command which fired a gun. He was promoted colonel of the Ninth Pennsylvania, and under his command this regiment took a prominent and honorable share in the capture of Stony Point' and St. Clair to Reed, in a letter dated July 25, 1779, says My friend, Col. Butler, commanded one of the attacks and distinguished himself.
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