When I entered the house just after the refugees had left, the young lieutenant was lying dead at the door. He was t'ne first one they killed on breaking in. Flagg. though desperately v.-oundcd, was yet alive and they dispatched him. Four or five were dead, where the tents stood cast of the house, besides many wounded. .A. greater part, at lea'^t half of the Rhode Island recrimcnt were cut off at this time. Besides the otticer I

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have mentioned, three others quartered at the time, at my grand-father's ; whose house was Col. Green's head quarters, Dr. Cushraan, (a Conti. nental surgeon), and also a captain and lieutenant, whose names I do not recollect. The refugees retired by the south road or path to the Crompond road, taking ^Greene with them on horseback; near where this path or farm road comes out mto the highway, Greene, faint v/ith loss of blood;-fell ort. Finding that he was dying they placedhim in a spot surrounded by whortleberry bushes, and putting something umler his head for support, left him in that state to finish his days alone. Here he bled to death, and was soon after found with no clothing on but his shirt and drawers. The whortleberry bushes were by or near to tl-,e public highway, (/. c. the Crompond and Pines Bridge road). _ They soon after took the bodies of the dead officers and buried them with the honors of war, in Crompond church-yard, depositing the remains of Greene and Flagg -- and I believe, those of the young lieutenant -- in one common grave. "The widow of Col. Greene was present at this ceremony, which was conducted with great pomp ; a large number of the military, as well as of citizens, m.ox-ing in the procession, while the bands played the most solemn airs from the dead -march, &c.