* Extract of a lelt^r from " C\MP at Mile-Square Eastchesteh," dated "23 October, 177G," published in The Frveman's Jonrnul or Xeic- Hompi'hire Gn:ette, Volume I., Number 25, Poktsmovtm, Tuesday, November 12, 1776.

5 Ibid.

In Lieutenant colonel Tench Tilghman's letter to William Duer. dated ' HEAn-cjUARTEUs, White-Plaixs, October 2:i, 1776," the narrative was differently told, giving the entire credit for the insignificant affair to General Lee, as was usually done, in siich cases, and stating that it occurred on the evening of the twenty-second ; and an E-dract of a letter Jrom Head-quarlei-s, published, officially, by the Congress, " October 25,

During the same day, [ Wednesday, October 23,] Colonel Glover, commanding the Brigade of whom Brigadier-general James Clinton was the commander -- the same who had distinguished themselves on the preceding Friday -- sent out a party, mostly composed of men belonging to his own Regiment, to see what was to be seen and do what they could do. It is said that that Scouting-party met a body of the enemy and attacked it, killing, as has been already stated, twelve Hessians -- one of them a Field-officer, on horseback -- and taking three prisoners, besides the horse of the Officer who was killed ; with the loss of one man, of Colonel Baldwin's Regiment, who was mortally wounded.*

On the same day, [Wednesday, October 23,] the Head-quarters of the Army were established " on the "Plain, near the cross-roads," at the White Plains.'

During the entire period succeeding the determination to move the main body of the American Army from the Heights of Harlem to the White Plains, there were the most active preparations to secure a successful retreat, throughout every portion of the Armj\ It is said the Mortars, some of the Cannon, a portion of General Washington's Baggage, and some of the Sick had been taken to the western side of the Hudson-river, before that determination was made;" on the morning of the twenty-second, the Sick who had not been sent over the Hudson-river, were sent