Vide page 250, ante.

»> In Lieutenant-colonel Tilghman's letter to his father, dated " Val- "entine's-Hill 4 miles from Kinqsbrioge 22 October 1776," it is expressly stated that "the General "--by which term he referred to General Washington, whose Aide-de-Camp he was and with whom he had been, while the Commander-in-Chief was at the White Plains-- " detached "Major Green * * * to fall upon Rogers in the Night, which they " did," etc.

" [Hall's] History of the Civil War in America, i., 205.

ls Lieutenant-colonel Tilghman, in the letter to his father, to which we have already referred, stated that " had not the Guides posted Haslet "wrong the whole party consisting of 400 must have fallen into our "Hands ;" and Colonel Haslet, in his Letter to General Csesar Rodney, dated " October 28, 1776," said, " had not our guides deserted us on the "first outset, he and his whole party must have been taken."

See, also, General Washington, through his Secretary, to Governor Trumbull, "Camp on Valentine' s-Hill, October 22, 1776."

18 In Lieutenant-colonel Tilghman's letter to his father, already mentioued, it is said "they counted 25 killed in one Orchard, how many got "off wounded we dont know ;" and in Colonel Haslet's letter to General Rodney, already referred to, it was said, " his Lieutenant and a number " of others were left dead on the spot."

" Lieutenant-colonel Tilghman to his father, " Valentine'8-Hill 4 miles "from Kinosbridoe, 22 October, 1776;" Colonel Haslett to General Rodney, "White-Plains, October 28, 1776 ;" etc.