Interesting letter, apparently in a secretarial hand, and with General Heath's signature clipped off, but docketed on the reverse "Gen. Heath to Col. Shepard Oct. 20th." Heath leads off with reference to rejected recruits returning their blankets, then writes of the final action the war, "We are still waiting impatiently of Lord Cornwallis's Capture, by the last account from the southward, everything was in a good way - you will very probably have heard before this reaches you that Col. Scammell was wounded and taken prisoner near the Enemy Lines, as he was reconnoitering the Enemy, he hs been permitted to come out on his parole... Colonel Tarlton made a salley on the third instant with about 600 men, was driven in by the Duke De Logeny Legion, with the loss of about 50 killed..."