'The twenty-second of October afforded the only letter in his published Correspondence, between the fifteenth of October and the sixth of November ; and Doctor Sparks, who conducted his Writings through the Press, stated, in explanation, " the unsettled state of the Army, " for several days succeeding the date of this letter," [that of the sixth of November,] "allowed very little leisure to the Commander-in-chief "for writing."-- (Writings of George Washington, iv., 157, note.)

4 In the published Orderbj-books of the Army, there does not appear a single entry, not even of a Parole and Countersign, between the eighteenth and twenty-fifth of October.

6 It must have been as early as the twenty second, since the column had reacheiWard's Bridge, now Tuckahoe, early on the morning of the twenty-fourth, {Memoirs of General Heath, 76 ;) it was still on its march, on the twenty-fifth, (Colonel B. H. Barrison to the Continental Congress, " Head-otakters, White-Plains, 25 October, 1776 ;") and did not join the main body of the Army, at the White Plains, until the twenty-sixth, {Memoirs of General Beath, 75 ;) possibly, not until the twenty-eighth. (General Glover's letter, dated " Mile-Square, October "22, 1776.")

• Gordon's History of the American Revolution, ii., 339, 340.

varied his duties by throwing a partyof his command, over the Bronx, during the night of Wednesday, the twenty-third of October, in order to beat up the outposts of the enemy ; and one of these, near Ward's Tavern, between Tuckahoe and»Scarsdale, and occupied by two hundred and fifty Hessians, was successfully attacked, early in the following morning, [Thursday, October 24,] ten of the number having been killed, and two taken prisoners ; 7 and it has been stated that, reciprocally, a dash was made on the rear of the slowly moving column, somewhere in the line of march, in which, among other losses, General Lee and Captain Alexander Hamilton, the latter of the New York State Artillery, lost their Baggage. 8 The column reached the White Plains, however, on Saturday, the twenty-sixth of October, with very little loss of either Stores or Troops. 9 The movement of eight thousand men, with a train of one hundred and fifty Wagons, which " filled the road for four "miles," and with Artillery, 10 under such peculiar circumstances, with such a scarcity of the means for transportation, and in the face -- often, within half a