ington, in person, was composed, nominally, of about twenty-five thousand, four hundred, and fifty men, of whom about twelve thousand and fifty were sick, on independent commands, or on furlough ; leaving only about thirteen thousand, four hundred, rank and file, present and fit for duty. 9 The supply of Provisions, as the reader has been already informed, 10 was exceedingly scanty ; " the Medicine-chest was almost destitute of both instruments and drugs ; w and Clothing was a luxury in which very few could comfortably indulge themselves. 13 The troops, as we have already stated, 14 were dispirited and, often, disaffected ;

9 Tlie General Returns of the Army, dated on the third of November, six dayB after the action on Chatterton's-hill, showed an aggregate of twenty-five thousand, two hundred, and seventeen, "rank and file," including the Matrosses of ten Companies of Artillery and excluding, of course, the Commissioned Officers, the Staff, and the Non-commissioned Officers of the Army. Adding to these, those who had been killed and missing during the period which had intervened between the time of which we write and the date of the Returns referred to, in which occurred the action on Chatterton's-hill and all the other military operations in the vicinity of the White Plains ; and it will be seen that, when the Army occupied the high grounds, to the northward of that Village, excluding the Sick, those who were on Commands, and those who were absent, on Furloughs, the effective force was only thirteen thousand, four hundred, and four, "rank and file."