Odell seized the first horse he could find, mounted and tried to escape but was overtaken by Kipp and Totten and pursued on the ice for half a mile or three quarters more. Kipp and Totten were ahead of their men, being probably having probably better mounted. They both struck at Odell, and Totten striking with a drill sword at last hit his cocked hat first and then the bridge of his nose, part of the hat being be- -tween, uncut, and intercepting the edge

[margin: 1845.] of the sword. The bony part of the nose being broken Odell carried the mark of this wound with him through life. He escaped by pulling up his horse suddenly and striking at the same time a moment at one of his pursuers a blow which stunned him. He then made for Teiller's Point and escaped before they could recover and overtake. The Officer (a Lieutenant) who commanded the squad at Van Cortland's made no effort to assist us, for which he was afterwards tried by a Court Martial. He might have saved us. He was broken. Kipp's party when he attacked us at Orser's was sixty or seventy in number. One of Kipp's men, the notorious Shube Merritt stripped me of my boots and uniform. We, the prisoners were taken first to Morrisania, then, on Saturday night to the Island (Randall's) opposite Randall's, and put in the log Provost there where we were confined, in want [page break] [margin: 1845.] Jail, and then on Sunday morning to Newyork where, one or two of us who were badly wounded were sent to the hospital, and the rest, Paulding excepted, to the Provost, that is, to the Old Jail. Paulding, in consequence of the celebrity he had acquired as one of the captors of André, was not confined but was entertained by the British officers, messing and living with the Captains and Lieutenants.