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.
The Returns of the strength of each of those several Regiments, on the twenty-first of September, on the fifth of October, and on the third of November, -- the last, five days after the action, -- were as follows :
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ive Officers and Privates. 1 The strength of all the force which was directed against that feeble body of men cannot be definitely ascertained, since the Hessian Artillerists, on the eastern bank of the river, whose fire was, certainly, to some extent, effective, were clearly as much a portion of that antagonistic force as those who crossed the river and assaulted the position or as those who charged on the right flank of the struggling Americans, and assisted in driving them from the hill. Besides those Hessian Artillerists, there were four Regiments of British troops, commanded by General Leslie ; the Hessian Begiment, probably from Colonel Donop's command, who occupied the place of danger and honor, as the forlorn-hope; the three Begiments of Hessians, commanded by Colonel Rail ; and the four or five Begiments of Hessians,