Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution
" them and the enemy's," [(fee American's,] "right flank; tha Second "Brigade of British," [those who had assaulted the fronts of the right and centre of the Americans,'] "formed in the rear of the Hessian Grena- "diers; and the two Brigades of Hessians, on the left of the Second " Brigade, with their left upon the road leading from Tarrytown to the "White Plains "--that is to say, the entire force, on the western bank of the Bronx, was moved northward, until its left was above that old road, still continued, which extends from the bridge, nearthe railroad-station, westward, over Chatterton's-hill.
1 Information communicated to us, personally, more than thirty years since, by the two gentlemen named, who, then, were our near neighbors and personal friends.
2 The Retwns of the Killed, Wounded, and Missing, in each of the several Regiments who had formed that bashful detachment leave no room for doubt concerning the Regiments of whom it was really composed-- indeed, there may have been others whose modesty forbade the making of any such Returns, and who have thereby escaped our notice.
The Regiments of whom we And mention, as we have already stated, were those commanded, respectively, by Colonels Silliman, Selden, Sage, and Douglass (the latter commanded by Lieutenant-colonel Arnold,) all belonging to the Brigade commanded by General Wadsworth ; the Regiment commanded by Colonel Chester, of the Brigade commanded by Colonel Sargent ; the Regiments commanded, respectively, by Colonels Baldwin, Douglass, and Lieutenant-colonel Ely, of the Brigade commanded by General Saltonstall ; and the Regiments commanded, respectively, by Colonels Holman and Smith, of the Brigade commanded by General Fellows -- all of them New Englanders and some of them experts in running, as was shown at Kip'a-bay, in the preceding September.