Our horses were put in the barn, stable, and barn yard and fed, and we proceeded to see our spoils at auction - While these events were going on the enemy were probably reinforced at Dobbs Ferry and renewed the [page break] 1845. pursuit, but not overtaking us had pulled up between Tarrytown and Sing Sing and wheeled about to return, when they were overtaken by a man named Curry who had passed us when we halted near Orsers and who informed them where we were. They now once more pushed forward and when they approached Orsers sent one party of about forty or fifty around through a lane who got in our rear and lay in ambush to cut off our retreat. This party by a circuitous march occupied the ground north of Orsers while the other party (of about fifteen or twenty) advanced upon us to the attack under cover of the orchard which extended down the banks of the North River South of the house. Captain Williams had been a verse to our halting here, urging us to cross the Croton and join a guard of about twenty five or thirty men posted at Courtlands [page break] 1845. House before stopping, and he was at the very time on the look out, but Kipp who commanded the Refugees took his measures so well that the enemy's approach was not discovered till they (fired upon the barn) this lower party of fifteen or twenty, dis- -charged their carbines and rifles. The horses alarmed and wounded kicked, plunged, and broke from their fastening in great confusion, and, running north for home were (many of them) captured by the party which advanced and cut off our retreat when they heard the firing. We lost here about eighteen or twenty horses of our own, and likewise the fifteen we had taken at West Farms, and the two prisoners.