Mosier was with the company at breakfast and retreated through the fields easterly and a line parallel 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 rising ground a little east of an old chestnut tree which stands in a small copse of locusts and south of the road from the Purchase Street to King Street, he was over taken by Kipp.
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John Carpenter cont'd.
He formed his men (fewer than thirty) in a solid body [X], himself in the centre, having previously addressed them and told them how to act, &c., saying that all depended upon their coolness and courage, and that they could not be taken if true to themselves, &c, &c. 'Tis said he was much assisted in this by Slaughter or Slater, a sergeant, who formed his men and harangued them. Kipp continued his changes for an hour and a half, and was wounded and lost his horse which was killed. His party consisted of about sixty. [X] a "solid square." J.E.