W. Bradley Morehouse, Dartmouth '47, wrote a long paper entitled "The Burning of Fairfield, which was later incorporated by Lynn Perrigo into The Burning of Fairfield, a compilation drawn from various accounts from the Pequot Library, in Southport, CT, and from the Fairfield Historical Society. In his extensive bibliography, Morehouse lists, as follows: "52. Humphreys, Col. David, "Elegy on the Burning of Fairfield," as quoted in Lossing, Benson J., The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, New York, 1851, vol. I, p. 427." If I had not browsed through this bibliography, I would never have found the wondrous Field-Book (or, later, the Field-Book of the War of 1812, which I have).

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