It is said that Lieutenant-colonel Jackson received a musket-ball in his leg; that Major Thomas Henley, one of the Aides-de-camp of General Heath, who had insisted on going out with the expedition, as a Volunteer, was shot through his heart, as he was getting into the float; that Major Hatfield was missing; and that the Americans lost, in killed, wounded, and missing, fourteen men. 2

There was a wide-spread sorrow expressed for the death of Major Henley, who appears to have been a general favorite; and the cowardice of those who held back their support was as widely reprobated ; but; in the prevailing temper of that period, although the delinquents were arrested and tried by Courtmartial, nothing appears to have been done with them, beyond the cashiering of one of the Captains. 3

2 The most complete account of this disastrous expedition is that of General Heath, in his Memoirs, 63-66 ; but the Orders which were given to Lieutenant-coloneljackson by General Heath, "King's Bridge, " September 22, 1776 ; " David How's Diary, Edit. Morrisania, 1865, September 22, 1776 ; General Orders, " Head-quarters, Harlem - "heights, September 24,1776;" Lieutenant-colonel Tench Tilghman to William Duer, "Head-quarters, Harlem-heights, September 25, 1776 ; ' Extract of a letter from an Officer, at Harlem, dated September 25, 1776, in Force's American Archives, Fifth Series, ii., 524 ; Extract from a letter from Mount Washington, dated September 26, 1776 ; John Adams to Mrs. Adams, " Philadelphia, October 8, 1776 ; " Gordon's History of the American Revolution, ii., 336 -- who says there were five boats, one of which was sunk by the fire of the Brume, frigate -- etc., may be usefully consulted concerning it.