It will be seen that three hundred and forty Officers, Staff, non-commissioned Officers, and Musicians, and one thousand, four hundred, and forty-two Privates, present and fit for duty, survived the Battle, and, five days after that event, were returned as effective. The losses which they had sustained, in the action, and the probable absence, of some, on that occasion, must be taken into the account ; and we believe that the number of Officers and Privates who were actually engaged was about that which we have stated in the text.

Gordon, (History of the American Revolution, ii., 341,) reduced the num

* Not, then, in the service.

t " General Lincoln's Militia from Massachusetts, so scattered and " ignorant of the forms of Returns, that none can be got.'*

t In the original Returns, the total of Bank and File is stated at 830 : we have been unable to ascertain where the error in the details, is.

2 In the original Returns, the total of Bank and File is stated at 314 : we have been unable to ascertain where the error in the details, is.

Officers and Privates, making an aggregate of about seven thousand, five hundred effective men. 1

The loss sustained by the Americans was not as great as was, at first, supposed 2 -- the return to the Camp of the greater number of the fugitive New Engenders reduced the supposed losses from " between " four or five hundred in killed, wounded, and miss- " ing," which was the first estimate, to twenty-two killed, twenty-four wounded, and one missing, in the detachment commanded by General Spencer;* and, exclusive of the losses sustained by the Regiments commanded, respectively, by Colonels Haslet and Brooks, of which no Returns have been found, the loss of those who were on the top of the hill and who fought the battle, was two Captains, four Sergeants, one Corporal, and eighteen Privates, killed ; one Colonel, three Lieutenants, one Ensign, four Sergeants, and forty-three Privates, wounded; and sixteen Priber of those who remained, after the Militia had given way, to six hundred men; Chief-justice Marshall, (History of George Washington, ii., 502,) and Doctor Sparks, (Life of General Washington, 196,) each with the papers of General Washington before him, stated the force under General McDougal was "about sixteen hundred " men.