It will be seen that three hundred and forty Officers, Staff, non-commissioned Othcers, and Jlusicians, and one thousand, four hundred, and forty-two Private^*, present and fit for duty, survived the Battle, and, five days after that event, were returned as effective. The losses which they ha«l sustained, in the action, and the probable alisence of some, on that occasion, must be taken into the account; and we believe that the number of Officei-s and Privates who were actually engaged was about that which we have stated in the text.

Gordon, {Hitbiry of the American Kevolution, ii., 341,) reduced the nuin

* Not, then, in the service.

t " General Lincoln's Militia from Massachusetts, so scattered and " ignorant of the forms of Returns, that none can be got."

t In the original Eetnnu, the total of Rank and File is stated at 836 : we have lieeii unable to ascertain where the error in the details, is.

I In the original Kelurns. the total of Rank and File is stated at 314 : We have been unable to ascert.tin where the error in the details, is.

OlHcei's and Privates, making an aggregate of about seven thousand, five hundred efl'ective men. '

The loss sustained by the Americans was not as great as was, at first, supposed ' -- the return to the Camp of the greater number of the fugitive New Eiiglanders reduced the supj)0.sed losses from " between " four or five hundred in killed, wounded, and misa- " ing," which was the first estimate, to twenty-two killed, twenty-four wounded, and one missing, in the detachment commanded by General Spencer;^ and, exclusive of the losses sustained by the Regiments commanded, respectively, by Colonels Haslet and Brooks, of which no Returns have been found, the loss of those who were on the top of the hill and who fought the battle, was two Captains, four Sergeants, one Corporal, and eighteen Privates, killed; one Colonel, three Lieutenants, one Ensign, four Sergeants, and forty-three Privtites, wounded ; and sixteen Priber of those who remained, after the Militia had given way, to 8i.\ hundred men; Chief-justice Marshall, (Ilistonj «/ George Wusltingttm, ii., 502,) and Doctor Sparks. (Lift- of General M'ushiiiijlwt, 190,) each with the papers of General Washington before him, statcil the force under General McDoiigal was "about sixteen hundred" men.