While General Sullivan and his command were thus moving towards the White Plains, a raid was made from the Kegiment which occupied the entrenched Camp at Mile-Square, in which a Corporal and two Privates, with the approval of the Colonel, " went out to see what they could pick up," and succeeded in bringing in "a number of fat Cattle," without pretending, however, that they had belonged to the King's Army ; * and, on the afternoon of the following day, [Wednesday, October 23,] the same small party went out, again, but in a different direction -- "going "directly to the rear of the Hessian Camp," [near East Chester,'] " they went into a house where they " washed for the Officers, and were bringing off three " tubs of Shirts, when the man of the house informed "the Camp." The marauders were, of course, compelled to retreat ; but, meeting some of their comrades, -- probably the party referred to in the following paragraph, -- they rallied, drove back their Hessian pursuers, killed the Major who commanded the latter -- from whom they took his Commission and ten guineas, in money -- and a number of others, and captured .three prisoners, 5 evidently securing to themselves, also, very great credit.

1 [Hall's] History of the Civil War in America, i., 2U6.

2 Memoirs of General Heath, 75.

5 It is one of the Bingular portions of the history of that eventful Campaign, that the only mention which we have found, concerning General Sullivan's services, as Major-general commanding one of the great Divisions of the American Army, in Westchester-county, is that merely i ncidental remark, by General Heath, to which we have referred. There appears, also, in the manuscript papers of General Sullivan, which we have carefully examined, personally, next to nothing on the subject ; there is nothing in the carefully-prepared Memoir of him, by hifl faithful biographer, Hon.