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Colonial and State Records of North Carolina
Return of casualties in the Battle of Guilford Court House
Williams, Otho Holland, 1747-1790
March 15, 1781
Volume 17, Page 1038

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GENERAL GREENE'S LETTERS.
[No. 172, Vol. I, Pp. 102-103.]
RETURN OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MILITIA. KILLED, WOUNDED AND MISSING IN THE ACTION AT GUILFORD COURT HOUSE IN NORTH CAROLINA, THE 15th MARCH, 1781.

State Dep't, Washington, D. C.
Captains.
Subalterns.
Rank & File.
Two Brigades commanded by Brig. Genls. Butler and Eaton.
Killed
6
Wounded
1
1
3
Missing
2
9
552
Total
3
10
561

The North Carolina Cavalry, Com'd by the Marquis of Bretigney, lost one man killed and one wounded. I have received no return of one of the North Carolina Regiments; those missing are supposed to have gone home. According to the reports of the Genl. and Field Officers very few were killed or taken, most of them having thrown away their arms and abandoned the field early in the action.

O. H. WILLIAMS,
D. A. G.


Additional Notes for Electronic Version: The title (General Greene's Letters) at the top of the document may be a error by the printer or editor, as this document and the ones immediately following do not directly relate to Nathanael Greene.