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Numerical Accounting of POW�s at Yorktown signed by G. Washington.

George Washington to Abraham Skinner, October 25, 1781, Orders with List of Yorktown Prisoners.

The George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress

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of Gloucester, across the bay from Yorktown. They were to be reunited with their original regiments later.7 

According to the diary kept by the Bayreuther prisoner, Private Johann Conrad D�hla 8 , the German troops spent the day after the surrender recovering from their �many exertions and sleepless nights that occurred during the siege�. He wrote of seeing the undoubtedly impressive sight of the Americans raising a large flag �on the water battery at Yorktown� that had thirteen stripes, which represented the thirteen provinces of the United North American Free States. 
At three o�clock in the afternoon of October 21st, the able-bodied prisoners broke camp and began their march into captivity, escorted under a guard 

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[7] P. Kirby Gull, M. DIV., MSW, A Captor�s Conundrum: The Management of German Prisoners After Yorktown, A Maryland Perspective, Journal of The Johannes Schwalm Historical Association, Vol. 7, No. 3, 2003. p. 35.

[8] Johann Conrad D�hla, A Hessian Diary of the American Revolution, Translated, Edited, and with an Introduction by Bruce E. Burgoyne, From the 1913 Bayreuth edition by W. Baron von Waldenfels, University of Oklahoma Press, March 1990.