Mosier was with the company at breakfast and retreated through the fields easterly on a line par = allel to and near the road from Purchase Street to King Street. In a field beyond (that is, east of) General Thomas's in an open field) plain on a rising ground a little east of an old chestnut tree which stands in a small copse of locusts and South of the road for the Purchase Street to King Street, he was overtaken by Kipp.

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He formed his men (fewer than thirty) in a solid body, himself in the centre, having previously addressed them and told them how to act, de; saying that all depended upon their coolness and courage, and that they could not be taken if true to themselves, &c. &c. His said he was much assisted in this by Slaughter or Slater, a sergeant, who formed his men and harangued them. Kipp continued his charges for an hour and a half, and was wounded and lost his horse which was killed. His party consisted of about sixty. [margin: x a solid square. 25.]