' 2

,-.43

(Colonel lialdwin's

Lieut. -Col. Ely's

• 2-

('olonel liolnian's

. '*

r-39

Total

29(1

November 3.

Regiments.

Com. Officers.

Non-com. Off.

1 Fit for Duty.

c

a it

Xl

Sick, absent.

On Command.

£

c

_i

Total, Offl's and men.

(loloncl .''illiman's . . .

2(-

Colonel Seidell's. . , .

Colonel Douglass's. . .

' 1

Colonel Chester's . . .

■m

52(1

Colonel Baldwin's . . .

Colonel Dougliiss's. . .

' 1

Lieut. -Col. Ely's . . .

Colonel Holman's . . .

.572

Colonel Smith's. . . .

53(1

It will be seen that five hundred and sixty Officers, Staff, non-commis- .Moned Officers and Musicians, and two thousand and seventy-si.x Privates, present and fit for duty, survived the hazards of the engagement, and had returned to the Camp, five days after the Battle ; and the reader will readily perceive that our estimate of the effective strength of the detachment on the occasion under consideration, is a reasonable one, sustained as it is by the contemporary statement of Lieutenant-colonel Tilghman, one of the Aides of General Washington, (,LeUcr to hit father, " WniTK-pL.M.vs, 31" October, 177C;") and by that of Brigade-major Tallmadge, of General Wadsworth's Brigade, himself a participant in the affair on the Plain and in the discreditable retreat, {Memoir of Vohnel Benjamin Tallmadge, prepared by himself, 13;) for both of which see pages 43f>, 437, ante.

1 The Returns of the strength of these several Regiments, on the

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