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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coiiimauded by Colonel Doiiop, each or all of whom could not have contained less than six hundred

twoiity fiiist of Septeinlier, the fifth of October, ami on the third of November-- tlio last, five days after the Battle, -- were as follows;

September 21.

Re^iiiieiitn.

£

y

Staff.

Non com. Officers.

Fit for Duty.

o

it u (O

Sick, absent.

■0

a

a

•d & .a

,3

1 Total, 1 Rank and File.'

Colonel Smallwood's . . . Colonel Uitzenia's

Late Col. McDoucars 1 First New-York Reg't. | Colonel Webb's

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