fitted up with a pair of fixed chains, and from which a felon had been
removed to make room for his reception, was assigned him as an inner
apartment. The attendance of a servant was denied him, and no friend
was allowed to visit him.

Colonel Campbell naturally complained to Howe of such unworthy
treatment, and Howe addressed Washington on the subject. The latter
immediately wrote to the Council of Massachusetts Bay, and said, "You
will observe that exactly the same treatment is to be shown to Colonel
Campbell and the Hessian officers that General Howe shows to General
Lee, and as he is only confined to a commodious house, with genteel
accommodation, we have no right or reason to be more severe to Colonel
Campbell, whom I wish to be immediately removed from his present
situation and put into a house where he may live comfortably."

The historian (Gordon), who wrote at the time, gives a very graphic
account of the sufferings of the American prisoners in New York, which,
dreadful as it seems, is confirmed by many contemporary authorities. He
says: "Great complaints were made of the horrid usage the Americans met
with after they were captured."

The garrison of Fort Washington surrendered by capitulation to General
Howe, the 16th of November. The terms were that the fort should be
surrendered, the troops be considered prisoners of war, and that the
American officers should keep their baggage and sidearms. These
articles were signed and afterwards published in the New York papers.
Major Otho Holland Williams, of Rawling's Rifle Regiment, in doing his
duty that day, unfortunately fell into the hands of the enemy. The
haughty deportment of the officers, and the scurrility of the soldiers
of the British army, he afterward said, soon dispelled his hopes of