Nelson of the Guards. The weather was cold and a deep snow on the ground. Sleighs had been secretly provided to convey tire infantry, and an attempt was made to use them for that purpose, but the troops had not gone far before they were compelled to give it up and send back the sleighs, together with two light field-pieces, as the snow was found altogether too deep to admit of that mode of conveyance. The cavalry kept the main l'oad going north from Yonkers up the valley of the Nepperhan or Saw Mill River, but the infantry were obliged to get along the best way they could ; sometimes in the road, and sometimes out of it in the fields, on one side or the other. It was a march of about twenty miles by the shortest route, and they did not reach the vicinity of Young's house until nearly nine o'clock on Thursday morning, Feb. 3d.

Gen. William Heath, in his memoirs, gives substantially all the facts in regard to it. The following is his account : " On the morning of the 3d, about 9 o'clock, the enemy made an attack on Lieut. -Col. Thomson, who commanded the troops on the lines. The Colonel's force consisted of 250 men, in five companies, properly officered ; they were instructed to move between Croton River and the White Plains,.

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