The purposes of this work do not require us to follow the immediately subsequent operations of the two Armies ; and the general knowledge which prevails concerning the disastrous "Battle of Long Island," made more disastrous by reason of " the obstinate, ''self-conceited, inefficiency," if not by the criminal disobedience and neglect, of General Israel Putnam ; concerning the remarkable retreat of the American Army, from Long Island, made more remarkable and successful through the nautical skill of Colonel John Glover and his Regiment of Marblehead fishermen ; concerning the successful occupation of the City of New York, by the Royal Army, made more successful by reason of the arrant cowardice of those who had been posted at Kip's-bay, for the purpose of obstructing any attempt which the enemy should make to effect a landing at that place, as well as by reason of the greater cowardice of the Brigade of Massachusetts troops, commanded by General Fellows, and that of the Brigade of Connecticut troops, commanded by General Parsons, both of them, eight Regiments, in all, sent for the support of the small shore-guard; concerning the successful evacuation of the City of New York, by the American Army, made more successful by the tact and hospitality of Mary Lindley Murray and by the

1 [Hall's] History of the Civil War in America, L, 188.

See, also, Stedman's History of the American War, i., 193.

2 [HaU's] History of the Civil War in America, i., 188 ; Stedman's History of the American War, i„ 193.