A detachment of six hundred men, under the command of Colonel Lasher, was ordered to remain, near Kingsbridge, until further orders -- two hundred and fifty of the number were to occupy the barracks of Colonel Thomas's Regiment ; fifty were to be posted in Colonel Swartwout's regimental barracks ; fifty were to be posted in General Scott's Brigade barracks ; fifty were to occupy the regimental barracks of Colonel Prescott ; fifty were to occupy the barracks of Colonel Pawling's Regiment ; fifty were to be posted in the barracks of Colonel Nicoll's Regiment ; and the remaining fifty were to be posted in the barracks of Colonel Graham's Regiment -- and it was also ordered to mount the proper guards and pickets ; and to establish alarm-posts, in the different works. The guards then posted at Morrisania were to be called in, during the evening of that day, and to follow the Division, on the following morning ; and a small guard, evidently to be supplied from the detachment at Fort Independence, was to be continually posted on the high grounds, toward Morrisania, for the security of the detachment. 1 All these specific Orders, which were evidently issued much earlier than eight o'clock in the morning, were unquestionably obeyed, as far as they could be obeyed, with entire precision and promptitude ; but, nevertheless, it was not until about four o'clock, in the afternoon of that October day, that the Division was enabled to move; not until

^Division Orders, "Kino's Beidse, October 21, 17T6."