User talk:74.90.142.118

Further evidence that Hathorn and some of his men were actually within the main body of the battle and not "somewhere to the side" is supported by the fact that four of the fallen were in his regiment, as shown by primary documents: Nathaniel Finch, James Little, John Carpenter, and Isaac Ward. The lack of veracity in saying "Hathorn was not there at the battle" is persistent and troublesome, having been engendered by armchair generals after the Civil War (there is no evidence of this view in any documentation prior to that time). The evidence of his lifetime of military and civil appointments, plus honorary membership in the Society of the Cincinnati, would never have happened if his contemporaries in any way thought he had failed in leadership or withdrawn under fire. Most of his men had been assigned to other tasks prior to this action, many guarding the 500 prisoners of the battle of Stony Point on their way down to Easton, shown by several primary documents--- as Hathorn himself notes in his report. There is no primary evidence that he was not within the action of the battle. It's all secondary speculation well after the lifetime of eyewitnesses. Period. S. Gardner, Friends of Hathorn House Historical Society 74.90.142.118 (talk) 12:45, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

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