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
- Hufeland Index Page 171 -
jail, and then on Sunday morning to New York where one or two 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. We were detained prisoners till the 27th or 28th of April, that is, three months. Odell rode during most of the war a very fine grey horse presented to him by Governor Van Courtland, which he lost in the surprise at Or- -sers but afterwards recovered, the animal returning to the farm where he was raised. George M.Chain was the only man killed, and was with me on the banks of the Hudson river where the Refugees came up to us. They gave me quarter, but refused