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."

eight o'clock in the evening, that it passed Headquarters, on Valentine's-hill ; and, after a tedious and wearisome night-march, not until four o'clock, on the following morning-- that of Tuesday, the twenty-second of October-- that it reached Chatterton's-hill, the last of the line of entrenched works, near the village of the White Plains. During the same day, General Heath moved the Division to the high ground, to the northward of the little village; and, there, it evidently rested from the fatigue which was' consequent on the laborious movements of the preceding thirtysix hours. 2

It will be seen by the reader, that the Division which was thus pushed forward, to the White Plains, was in light marching order, evidently taking with it no more than the personal Baggage of the Officers and men ; that it was pushed forward, with all possible expedition, if it may not properly be said to have been by a forced march ; and that it was not halted on its line of march, until it had reached Chatterton's-hill. It had moved along the roadway leading to the White Plains, behind and under cover of the line of entrenched camps, stretched along the high grounds, westward from the Bronx-river, from Valentine's-hill, on the South, to the White Plains, on the North, which had, already, been thrown up and occupied, 3 and it reached the Plains and rested on the high grounds, at that place ; and it was subsequently moved into the