Theodore Winthrop

“ Poor Kerr! when he reached New York, he was all the time haunted by regrets for his lost bride. “Up again, and take another!” is the only advice to be given under such circumstances. Some other flower of lower degree must be a substitute for the rose. ”

“ There was some able acting in it, and all the world watched for the catastrophe quite breathless and agape. A brilliant pageant of a surrender closed the play, in which, to the general surprise, it was Jack Burgoyne, and not Horatio Gates, who gave up the sword and yielded the palm. ”

“ Kerr indited a doleful account of his diet and impending dyspepsia to his General.
“I must have him back,” said Sir Henry. “Anybody can be an Adjutant; but nobody in His Majesty’s army can carve a saddle of mutton, or take out a sidebone, with Kerr.”
The “swap” was arranged. The Major was put on board the Tartar, opposite Brothertoft Manor. He went off a sadder and a wiser man.
His capture had served its purpose of amusing Putnam’s desponding forces. The General had been able to write to Washington, “We have lost the Highland forts ”