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AN EPITAPH. ALEXANDER SCAMMEL,
Adjutant-General of the American Armies, and Colonel of the first regiment of New-Hampshire, while he commanded a chosen corps of light infantry, at the successful siege of York-Town, in Virginia, was, in the gallant performance of his duty, as field officer of the day, unfortunately captured, and afterward insidiously wounded; of which wound he expired at Williamsburgh, October, 1781. Anno ætatis. ...
Though no kind angel glanc'd aside the ball,
Nor fed'ral arms pour'd vengeance for his fall:
Brave Scammel's fame, to distant regions known,
Shall last beyond this monumental stone,
Which conqu'ring armies (from their toils return'd)
Rear'd to his glory, while his fate they mourn'd.
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