A number of Americans were killed and wounded by long shot from the yaugers of the enemy, who kept up a popping fire whenever they could reach our troops."*

The vesdges of the mihtary camp pits can still be traced on the hills around the bridge, while within a few feet of it the remains of a Brirish officerwere recently disinterred -- and, incredible as it may seem, in his full uniform ; the brass buttons as perfect as the day they were moulded, containing the number of his regiment.

King's Bridge was also the rendezvous of a corps of freebooters called " Cou< Boys" whose bands ravaged the surrounding hills and valleys. "On the part of the British," remarks the author of the Spy, " the stimulus of loyalty was by no means suffered to sleep where so fruitful a field offered on which it might be expended. But their freebooters were enrolled, and their efforts more systematized. Long experience had taught their leaders the efficacy of concentrated force ; and unless tradition does great injustice to their exploits, the result did no little credit to their foresight. The corps -- we presume from their well known affecrion to that useful animal -- had received the significant appellation of ' Cow Boys.' "^ The morality of these heroes of the Neutral Ground, was of a singular kind : the rapine by which they subsisted, they accounted lawful and honorable.

King's Bridge lies prettily situated in a beautiful vale near the confluence of the Hudson and Harlem Rivers. It is almost surrounded by high rolling hills, Avhose tops are crowned by hill forts and fine spreading woods. This spot was first chosen as the site of the city of New Amsterdam, on account of its secure and inland position.