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Burgoyne and his whole army to surrender as prisoners of war.” (Obituary of Col. Slaughter.)
Col. Slaughter, after serving in the Continental Army between two and three years, returned to Virginia where he “was appointed as Lieutenant to guard the barracks near Charlottesville, same prisoners he so gallantly astu. ^ 1 to capture at Trenton.” (Obituary.) He was one of the first soldiers of the Revolutionary War to be buried in Rappahannock. He is buried at Clover Hill near Woodville.
Among the information on her family that Mrs. Keyser has collected, information she said she has enjoyed collecting all of her life, is a more personal account of the war from Philip Slaughter, Col. Slaughter’s brother.
Mrs. Keyser compiled the following account from various family papers and other sources. “They (the soldiers) were all reduced to great deprivations and want of food and clothing. They bore their sufferings without murmur, being fortified by an undaunted patriotism. Most of the officers gave to their almost naked soldiers mostly the whole of their clothing, reserving only that they themselves had on.
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