3Tho twenty-second of October afforded tlie only letter in his published Correspondence, between the fifteenth of October and the sixth of November ; and Doctor Sparlis, wlio comlucteii l)is Writings througli Iho Press, stated, in explanation, " tlie unsettled state of tlie Army, "for several days siicceeding the date of this letter," [tluU of the sixth of Nortmber,} "allowed very little leisure to the Connnander-in-chief "for writing."-- (irriiinjs o/ George Wnsliiugton, iv., 157, note.)

*In the published Orderhj-honks of the Army, there does not appear a aingle entry, not even of a Parole and Countersign, between the eighteenth and twenty-fifth of October.

5 It must have been as early as the twenty second, since the column had reached Ward's Uridge, now Tuckahoe, early ou the morning of the twenty-fourth, (iUmoirs of General Henth, 76 ;) it was still on its march, on the twenty-fifth, (Goloitel li. Jl. Hm-riaon to the Cuntiiientol Ooagresa, " llE.vn-yrAKTKRs, Wihte-PlaiN!!, 26 October, 177G ; ") and did not join the main body of the Army, at the W'hite Plains, until the twenty-sixth, (Mentoirs of General Heulli, 75 ;) possibly, not until the twenty-eighth. (GfcneraJ Glocer's leUer, dated " Mile-Square, October "22, 1776.")

'Gordon's IIi4lmij of the American Revolulitm, ii., .339, 340.

varied his duties by throwing a party of his command, over the Bronx, during the night of Wednesday, the twenty-third of October, in order to beat up the outposts of the enemy ; and one of these, near Ward's Tavern, between Tuckahoe and Scarsdale, and occupied by two hundred and fifty Hessians, was successfully attacked, early in the following morning, \_Thursday, October 24,] ten of the number having been killed, and two taken prisoners ; ' and it has been stated that, reciprocally, a dash was made on the rear of the slowly moving column, somewhere in the line of march, in which, among other losses, General Lee and Captain Alexander Hamilton, the latter of the New York State Artillery, lost their Baggage.'* The column reached the White Plains, however, on Saturday, the twenty-sixth of October, with very little loss of either Stores or Troops.' The movement of eight thousand men, with a train of one hundred and fifty Wagons, which " filled the road for four " miles," and with Artillery,'" under such peculiar circumstances, with such a scarcity of the means for transportation, and in the face -- often, within half a