Odell seized the first horse he would 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 or more. Kip and Totten were ahead of their men, being probably being probably better mounted. They both struck cut at Odell, and Totten striking with a dull 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
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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 moment at one of his pursuers a blow which stunned him. He then made for Taller's Point and escaped before they could recover and overtake. The officer (a Lieutenant) who com- -manded 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 Orsar'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 Provoost there where we were confined in said