The several positions occupied by the different portions of the Army, from day to day, have not been noticed, with any degree of particularity, in any of the official documents or publications of that period, as far as we have knowledge ; but it is evident that the command of Major-general Spencer was moved from the exterior lines, on the Heights of Harlem, to which it had been ordered on the preceding Monday, [October 14,] 1 and carried into Westchester-county -- the Brigades commanded, respectively, by Brigadiergenerals Wadsworth and Fellows were moved to Kingsbridge, 2 probably further northward ; and the Brigade commanded by Brigadier-general Lord Stirling, to which the Regiments commanded, respectively, by Colonels Weedon and Reed were added, 3 was pushed forward, first, to the Mile Square and, afterwards, to the White Plains.* A portion, if not the whole, of the Brigade commanded by Colonel Glover was evidently moved to support whatever guard there may have been posted on the outlet from Pell's, or Rodman's, neck; 5 two Regiments of the Massachu"

that ''retirement" were largely based, and from the date of which officially expressed opinions, alone, that of " the origin of the retire- "ment of the American Army from New York" can he accurately ascertained.

Surely the historian could not have been sincere when he described the hurried movement of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Smallwood, on the twelfth of October, to oppose the progress of the enemy from Throgg's-neck, as a "retirement of the American Army from New " York ; " and because the weight of his authorities, in support of his fancy, was confined to a single letter, written by the Adjutant-general of the Army to his wife, on the day after the enemy landed on Throgg'sneck, in which that officer said, "The principal part of this Army is "moved off this island"-- a movement from the works on Harlem Heights, which was only for the purpose of holding the enemy in check, and that not, by any means, in fact, approaching a movement of " the "principal part of the Army," nor with either an intimation or a pretense that it was a " retirement of the American Army " from its strong position -- without any other testimony whatever to support it, we are constrained to attribute the statement under consideration, either to have been an ebullition of his antipathy against General Lee or one of the reasonable results of his iguorance of what was necessary to constitute a "retirement of the American Army from New York."