Arthur St. Clair Letter to Governor Huntington of Connecticut

              Fort Washington Novr 14th 1791 
Dear Sir 
I was honored with your letter by Captn 
Bush, which I did not receive until about a week 
ago when I returned from my unfortunate expedition. 
It will always give me pleasure to hear from you- 
Sir and to attend to any recommendation you may 
be pleased to make. 
No doubt the news of our misfortune will 
have reached you long before this can, and tho it is 
truly a serious misfortune reports will have aggravated 
it-full one half of my little army were killed and 
wounded and a much greater proportion of officers; 
and that loss has fallen hard upon the second 
Regiment-all of whom [inserted: that is of the officers] except [illeg.], who were 
in the action fell-among those were Major [illeg.] and 
several others from your state--who were advanced 
about ninety miles, and we still  retain sixty of 
them nothwithstanding, and it is not improbable that 
this winter yet, all our loss, that is recoverable, may be 
recovered