to the White Plains, reaching that place on the following morning ; ^ and the Comnumder-in-chief " was " almost the whole time on horsehack," '■' his Correspondence^ and even the Orderly-books of the Army* clearly indicated that his personal supervision of the entire movement and of all which pertained to it was unstintingly given.

It is not now known when General Lee and his Division commenced its Laborious march, towards the White Plains ; ^ but it " was attended with much dif- " ficulty, for want of Wagons and Artillery-horses. "The Baggage and Artillery," it was said,* "were "carried or drawn off by hand. When a part was *' forwarded, the other was fetched on. This was the " general way of removing the Camp-equipage and "other appendages of the Army. The few Teams " which were at hand, were no wise equal to the ser- "vice; and their deficiency could be made up only "by the bodily labor of the men." Sometimes, the toiling column was in open view of the enemy, and at no considerable distance from him; and it is not explained why he did not disturb it, which he did not, although he could have easily done so, and have captured the greater number of the Cannon, Wagons, Horses, etc., which the American Army possessed. Surely the little tree-fringed Bronx did not offer any serious obstruction : surely the entrenched Camps behind which the heavily laden column was slowly marching, and which were abandoned when the column reached Uiem, those who had occupied them falling in and increasing the strength of the moving force, did not intimidate him : rather let it be supposed that General Howe's well-settled, wellsupported policy of exposing his men, in assaults on , entrenchments, only when the objects to be attained by such assaults were adequate to the loss of men, in such assaults -- " not wantonly to commit His Majes- " ty's troops, where the object was inadequate," was his own description of it -- controlled him, as it had done in Brooklyn, while the King's Army was on Long Island.