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Colonel Hasist to General Casar Podory, " November 12, 1776."
" We have found no mention of the movement of the Beghoeht cont. manded by Colonel Hitzema for the support of the Regiments con- manded by Colonel Brooks and Smallwood, on the right of the line ; but it is reasonable that support was needed, there; and there is sat isfactory evitare that Colonel Bitzema and his command were really there, during theaction: " we shall not stop to enquire just when they went to that very ex vord position.
a Colonel Hunlet to Federal Chair Rodney, "November 12, 1776."
Letter to a Gentleman in Annapolis, dated " WHITE-PLAINS, October 29, " 1776."
3 " After a smart engagement for about a quarter of an hour, obliged
"our mon to give way "- Colonel Hebert I Harrison to the President of the Congress, " Where-Phares, October 29, 1776.")
" After a very smart engagement for fifteen of twenty minutes, they " oldiged our men to give way."-Colonel Robert H. Harrison to Generel Schuyler, " Nach Praise, November 1, 1776.")
" The Militia Regiment Ded * * Colonel Smallworld, in a quarter " of an hour afterwards, pave way, also."- Colored Haslet to fun! Cesur Radary, " November 12, 1776.") " Colonel Huset to tieneval Cavar Rotary, " Sinventur 12, 17Di."
: General Have to Lord George Gonnatine, "NEW-YORK, 30 November. "1776 ;" The Jamon Register for 1776, History of Europe, 178 * ; History of the War in .Imerica, Edit. Dublin : 1729, i., 11 ; etc.
" Returns of the Strength of the fieg ments engaged, etc. (Vide page 2h).
DEalunel Haslet to General Char Rodacy. " November 12, 177%." 16 Colonel Hullet Lo General Coeur IN Jury, " November 12, 1776."
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1
General Have to Lord George Germaine, "NEW-YORK, 30 November. "1771" The Mannad Register for 1756, History of Europe, 175 * ; The History of the War in . Imerice, Edit. Puldin : 1579, 195 ; etc.
It is possible that one of the Regiments of that Brigade had been de- tailed, targus the forlorn.hope, in the assink, as we have already state.l. " Vide page 263, ante.
3. Nettes of the Strength of the Reginanis engaged, etc. (Vide page 20,
+ Captain Hall's unpublished Merwir, quoted in Campbell's Revolu- timmary & prices and Cird Life of General William Hull, 54.
As the fire of tha Hessian Artillerits had been suspended when the assailants had commenced to awood the hill, it is very evident that, when Colonel Donop, the last to reach the groutnl, assaulted the brit of the American line, there was no artillery on the bill, in front of him, mounted and effective.
& General Mcdougal complained of Colonel Webb; Just, in General th. dlers, General Washington stated. "The representation made of Colonel "Webb's Regiment, yesterday, by General MeDougal, appearing to be "a mist cke, and that they kept the piel assigned then, notwithstanding "A severe canticoade, the General takes the first opportunity to make it " know & to prevent any unfavorable impression."-(General thiers, "HEADQUARTERS, WHITE PLAINS, October 20, 1576.")
" Captain Halt's unprildished Memoir, quoted in Cumple.W's Brodu- tionary Services and Bird Life of Gereed Edison Hall, 35; Cionretour
On every part of the ground, except those portions which had been occupied by the Company of New- York Artillery and the Regiment of Massachusetts
But the action was, also, not confined to the as- sadts on nor to the defeners of the right and crmer of the Americans, on the top of that notable hill. The four Regiments composing the Brigade commanded : Militia, the battle had been resolutely sustained ; ? by General Leslie, were soon followed, "with the and the assailants, in more than one instance, had beeu compelled to fall back ; ' but the opposing forces were so unequal in their strength that a successful occupation of the hill could not have been expectedl, by any oue -- indeed, the fact that the entire detach- tuent was not cut off from the main body of the Army, and captured by the enemy, reflects the highest honor on those who occupied the hill, and fills one with wonder and admiration. It is doubtful if any who were not too neh disabled to be removed, were taken prisoners ; all who were able to move off the hill, moved off, by the left flank, by way of the road which led from the White Plains to Dobby's ferry ?- they moved sullenly, 19 " in a great body, neither run- "ning nor observing the best order," " covered by a por- tion of the Delaware Regiment " -- and, having crossed the bridge over which the roadway passed the Bronx, the site of that which now affords a passage over the river, near the present railroad-station at the White Plains, they fell in on the rear of General Beall's Maryland Flying Camp, which General Puttiam was lending for their support, on the hill ; 13 and joined the main body of the Army, within the lines. " greatest alacrity and in the best order," through the river, at the ford, and up the Mill-lane, and up the eastern face of the hill, by the Chasseurs and by three, if not by, four, Regiments of Hessian Grenadiers, composing the Brigade commanded by Colonel Donop.1 In front of these, on the summit of the hill. were the skeleton First New York Regiment, formerly commanded by General MeDougal, but then evidently without Field-officers and commanded by one of its Captains ; and the Regiment of Connecticut troops commanded by Colonel Charles Webb, very little stronger in effective men, than the other; and, very probably, one of the two field-pieces which constituted the arinament of the Company of New-York Artillery of whom Alexander Hamilton was the official com- mander-the other of the two pieces, as the reader will remember, was posted on the extreme right of the line, under the command of Colonel Haslet." All these numbered, in the aggregate, not many, if any, more than four hundred fighting Officers and Iri- vates ; 3 and, with their only piece of artillery dis- mounted, evidently before the assailants commenced to aseend the hill,' and without any support or defeu- After he had gained possession of the bill, the ene- my made no attempt whatever to pursue the retreating Americans; but formed and dressed lis line, " and sive works, it is scarcely probable that much was expected from so feeble a body, in the face of so heavy a body of assailants. But the records indicate that all those of the two freble Regiments who were present on the field, performed their duty satisfacto. 7 " The gaining of this important post took up a considerable tinte, "which was prolonged by the enemy'a still supporting a broken atel "scattered engagement, in defence of the adjoining walls and hedges." The History of the War in towrien, Edit. Dublin, 1779, (i., 197;) Gor- dott's History of the American Regulation, (ii., 311 ;) and others, Also, bear testinioov to the gallautry of the American troops. [fences!]-(The Inmind Register for 1776, History of Europe. "IT>.) Brooks to the President of the Quest Martial for the trial of firered Bull, "Bostux, February 4, 1814." rily to the Commander-in-chief; 5 and, we are told that, when an effort was made by the assailants to turn the left of the line, a detachment from Colonel Webb's Regiment, commanded by Captain Willian Hull, defeated the attempt, with spirit and prompti- tude, although he was opposed by more than double . "ont Troupe made as good a Stand as could be expected and "did not quit the Ground, till they came to push their layopets."- Lieutenant colonel Tilgangen to his Father, " WHITE PLAINS, Blet October, the number of his own command. 6
" Letter to a Gentlemen in Imuspolis, dated " WHITE-PLAINS, October 20. "ITTo," published in The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1771, PHILANEI- rires, Wednesday, November 13, Hai.
"Our own knowledge of the grom land its approaches pohled us to make the statement which appear, in the trat ; and, by a ref-prier to .I Pla of the Country Joon Fog's Found to Credon line", the reader may er the evidence of the accuracy of that statement.
" Letter from the White Plains, dated October 28, 1776, at two airlock, P.M., published in The Pennsylenvie Evening Post, Vol. U., No. 258, PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, Aletuber 31, 1776, and in The Pennytermin Journal, No. 1770, PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, November , 17.
11 M. moins of Major-general Health, 79. See, also, Willand harrison to the Maryland Council of Safety, "THEURGE- "TOWN, KENT-COL STY, 28 November, 1776." 12 Colonel Huset to Giveral Gione Hodury, ' November 12."
13 Letter box a Gentleman in Inanpolis, dated " WirTh- Press, October 23 "177;" published in The Proxylostin Jogrund, No. 1771. PHILADEL .- VILA, Wednesday, November Li, 1776.
14 Memoire of General Heath, 79.
General Howe, In his despatch to Land George Gernmine, date I " Now- "York, 30 November, 1776," stated that, after the engagement, "the "Heasian Grenadiers," [those who hond assaulted the best of the hurricane.] " were ordered forward, utwor the lights, within cannonshot of the "entrendlinees, the Brotex, from its winding conter, Lem still lo tweets
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prepared his dinner, for the purpose of doing which he tore down and burned a barn which belonged to John Huut, on property, on the western portion of the hill, which, in our younger days, belonged to his two sons, Thomas and Jacob Hunt .:
The strength of the Americans, under General Spencer, who were engaged on the Plain ; who were alarmed at either the Hessians or the Light Dragoons; and who fled, over the river and far away, among the hills of Greenburgh, was, as we have already stated, not far from twenty-five hundred effective Officers and Privates: 2 that of the Regiments who composed the force on the top of the hill, who defended the position, and who were really the heroes of the day, exclusive of the Company of Artillery, who rendered no effect- ive service, was not far from seventeen hundred effect-
"them and the enemy's." [the American's.] " right thank ; the Scrolld " Brigade of British," [those who had assaulted the fronts of the right and centre of the Americans, ] "formed in the rear of the Hessian firena. "diers ; and the two Brigades of Hessiaus, on the left of the second " Brigade, with their left upon the road reading from Tarrytown to the " White Plains " -- that is to say, the entire force, on the western bank of the Bronx, was meved northward, until its left was above that old ron, still continued, which extends from the bridge, near the railroad-station, westward, over Chatterton's-hill.
I Information communicated to us, personally, more than thirty years since, by the two gentlemen named, who, then, were our war neighbors and personal friends.
2 The Returns of the Killed, Wounded, and Missing, in each of the several Regiments who had formed that bashful detachment brave no rooin for doubt concerning the Reghoents of whom it was really composed-indeed, there may have been others whose modesty forbade the making of any such Returns, and who have thereby escaped onr notice.
The Begin uts of whom wo that mention, as we have already stated, were those commanded, respectively, by Colonels Silliman, Sollen, Sage, and Douglass (the latter commandled by Lieutenant-colonel Arnab], ) all belonging to the Brigade commanded by General Wadsworth ; the Bugi- ment couneamled by Colonel Chester, of the Brigade connnatoled by Colonel Sargent ; the Regiments communnded, respectively, by Colonels Baldwin, Douglass, and Lieutenant colonel Ely, of the Brigade com- manded by General Saltonstall ; and the Regiments commanded, respec- tively, hy Colonels Holman and smith, of the Brigade commanded by General Fellows-all of them New Englanders and some of them experts in running, as was shown at Kip's-hay, in the preceding sep- temix.r.
The Returns of the strength of each of those several Regiments, on the twenty-first of September, on the fifth of October, and on the third of November, -the last, five days after the action, -- were ny follows :
September 21.
Regiments.
Com. Officere.
Staff.
Non-com. Off.
Fit for Duty.
Sick, present.
Sick, hbsent. :
On Commimt.
Forlonghed.
Total,
Rank and File. i
Colonel Silliman's
26
-1
47
194
5℃
415
11
52
4-5
Colonel Mayr's. .
Colonel Douglasy's
32
4
47
5
33
25
147
19
Lt .- Col. Ely's
Colori Holm
5
46 3+1
102
50 %
Colonel Smith's
35
6
43 . 236
to
343
Total. .
ive Officers and Privates. 1 The strength of all tis force which was directed against the . porde Los men cannot be definitely ascer aims to the He- sian Artillerists, on the eastern bank of the river whose fire was, certainly, to some extent, efectiv. were clearly as much a portion of that antagonisti force as those who crossed the river and assaulted the position or as those who charged on the right flank ot the struggling Americans, and assisted in driving them froin the hill. Besides those Hessian Artillerists, there were four Regiments of British troops, commanded by General Leslie ; the Hessian Regiment, probably from Colonel Donop's counnand, who occupied the place of danger and honor, as the forlorn-hope; the three Regiments of Hessians, commanded by Colonel Rall; and the four or five Regiments of Hessians.
Regiments.
Com. Office!s.
Non-com Off.
Fit for Puty.
Sick, present.
Sick, ul-sent.
On Command.
Forlonghird.
Rank nel File.
Colom 1 Silliman's
21:
2
1.
Colonel Srlilen's.
4
45
45
194
Colonel Douglas's
212;
3
Colonel Closter's
31.
1
4.1
212
123
133
Colonel Baldwin's
5
Pol mel Pourla-s's
4 41
11:
5
1:
Lieut .- Col. Ely's
3
31
5
Colonel Smith's .
Total
41 2025 925 720 013
4 4125
Novelaber 3.
Regiments.
Com. Officers. 1
Non-com. off.
Fit for Duty.
Sick, present.
Stek, absent.
Un Comment.
1: .
1.15
4: "
Colonel Ballwin's . . .
2-
::
44
.1
41
1
11
Colonel Haiman's
300 102 - 81
5:4
2:
Colonel Shinthi's
1:
51
Total.
1×4
34 2056 372 970 613
5 4-36470
It will be gren that five hundred and sixty Officers, Staff, non-conmis- rioned Officers and Musicians, and two thousand aud seventy-six Pri- vatys, present and fit for duty, survived the Wizards of the engag .mett. and had returned to the Camp, five days after the Battle ; and the reader will rea.lily perceive that our estimate of the effective strength of the detachment on the recession under consideration, is a reasonable che sustained as it is by the contemporary statement of Li-menant colonial Tilghman, one of the Ailes of General Washington, (Letter to his feature, " WAIT7-PLAINS, 31 October, 1736;") and by that of Brigade-major Tullmindye, of General Walworth's Brigade, himself a participant in the affair on the Plain and in the disreliable retreat. (Memeir of (' line! Benjamin Tallmadge, prepared by himself, 13:) for Inthe of which some pages 20), 261, ante.
1 The Return of the strength of thise several Regiments, on the
.
Colonel Sel.let's.
15
417
6.
147
Colonel Chester's
143
1
Cdlowl Ballwin's
Colonel stiliman's. . .
14
140
Colonel Selden's. . . .
1.
Colonel Sapo's.
15
46
170
Colonel Douglas's ...
4
Colonel Chester's. . .
+
254
10;
41
27
Colonel Holman's
118
00
105
107
Colunel Sage's. .
October 5.
Staff.
Tofut.
To'al,
Statt.
i
232
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cominauded by Colonel Donop, each or all of whom could not have contained less than six hundred
twenty-first of September, the fifth of October, and on the third of November-the last, five days after the Battle, -Were as follows:
September 21.
Regiments.
Cum. Officers. !
Staff.
Non com.
Officers.
Fit for Duty.
sick, present.
stek, alorst.
On Command.
Furloughed.
Total.
Rankand Filo.
E'donel Brooks's .
Colonel Smallwood's
41
8.10
Colouel Ritzeum's.
20
33
Colonel Haslet's
32
41
124
.
Late Col. McDougal's
5
20 215 19
=
. .
Colonel Webb's.
13
25 219
3-40
Total
137: 20
167,1561 190
1:27
0 2:32
1
Regiments.
Comn. Officers.
Staff.
Non-com.
Officers.
Fit for Duty.
Sick, present.
Sick, alernt.
Un Comunand.
Furlonghed.
Rank and File.
Colonel Brooks's
+
.
.
100
191
:1
7.4
Colonel Ritzeina's.
18
3.
28. 217
24 385
140
29
Late Col. MeDougal's
14
5
19: 153
30
75
..
Colonel Webb's. .
9
211
185
40 210
2
Total .
99 20
161,1262; 356
504
On Command.
Furlan ched.
Pink and Filo.
Totul, Officers
and Privates.
Colmmel Brooks'd
30
5
340
46
Colonel Smallwood's
8
37
299
84 354
5,
I
342
Colonel Hislet's
1.3
3
21: 273
26
21 .. .
Late Pol. Me Dongat'a )
5
19, 142
90
70
13
1
251 290
Colonel Webb's.
16
3
27
191
73-
205
9
527 313
Total. .
1:31 28
181 1442 20 811 340 40 2351. 3291
it will Go spon that three hundred and Cry Offices, Stad, aun on- missioned ificers, and Musicians, and one thousand, four hundred, and forty-two Privatry, present and fit for iluty, survived the Battle, and, five days after that event, were returned an effective. The losses which they had sustained, in the action, and the probablo absence of some, on that occasion, must be taken into the account ; and we believe that the nunt. ber of Officers and Privates who were actually engaged was about that which we have stated in the text.
Gordon, ( History of the American Revolution, it., 341,) redured the num
* Not, then, in the service.
+ "General Lincoln's Militia from Massachusetts, so scattered and " ignorant of the forms of Returns, that one can be got."
Į lu the original Returns, the total of Rank and File is stated ut $30 ; we have been unable to ascertain where the error in the details, is.
¿ In the origiunl Returns, the total of Rank and File is stated at 314 : we have been nuable to ascertain where the error in the details, is.
Officers and Privates, making an aggregate of about seven thousand, five hundred effective ment. 1
The loss sustained by the Americans was not as great as was, at first, supposed"-the return to the Camp of the greater number of the fugitive New Eng- landers reduced the supposed losses from " between " four or five hundred in killed, wounded, and miss- "ing," which was the first estimate, to twenty-two killed, twenty-four wounded, and one missing, in the detachment commanded by General Spencer ; } and, exclusive of the losses sustained by the Reginients commanded, respectively, by Colonels Ha-let and Brooks, of which no Returns have been found, the loss of those who were on the top of the hill and who fought the battle, was two Captains, four Sergeants, one Corporal, and eighteen Privates, killed; one Col- onel, three Lieutenants, one Ensign, four Sergeants, amil forty-three Privates, wounded; and sixteen Pri-
bor of those who remained, after the Militia had given way, to six huu- davel men; Chief justice Marshall, History of George Washington, ii., 302, ) and Doctor Sparks. (Life of General Washington, 199, ) each with the papers of General Washington before him, stated the forte under Gon- eral MeDongal was "about sixteen hundred " tien.
1 General Howe was silent concerning the numerical strength of the force which be had thus employed ; and none of the British anthuri. ties were any more communicative. Stedman, however, ( Holory of the Ameruna War, i, 215,) ciearty intimated that the force which was re- quired to take and occupy Chatterton's-hill, when diverted for that purpose, so greatly weakened the Royal Army, then on the White Plains, that "it wits obvious that the latter could no longer expediently "attempt anything against the enemy's" [the _Imerican'] "' main " body."
We may be allowed to say, in this connection, that the practise of that period, in making mention of the strength of detachments or of that of the Army itself, was to meludle only the Hank and File, excluding the Commissioned Officers, the Staff, atal the non-commissioned Officers, all of thein, to some extent, at least, effective fighting men.
" Compare the letter from Colonel Robert II. Harrison, the Secretary LE General Washington, to the President of the Congress, datedl " WHITE- " PLAINS, 20 October, 1776," with General Washington's letter to the state, dated " WHITE PLAINS, 6 November, 1776," in the latter of which he said, "I am happy to inform you, that, in the engagement on Mon. ' day se night, I have reason to believe our loss was, by no means, so ** considerable as was conjectured, at first."
See, also, Colonel Robert H. Harrison's letter to Governor Trumbull, "WHITE PLAINS, November 6, 170; " the zone to Governer Coke, " WHITE-PLAISA, November 6, 1776;" etc.
" The following table will show the losses which Were sustained by each of the several Regiments why composed that detachment :
Rechnents.
Sorg'ts.
Corpd's.
Privates.
1 Cuptains.
T'ust L.t.
Ser. I.I.
Eusign.
Serg'14.
| Corp'1.
[ Privalen.
Privaten.
Colonel Silliman's
1
Colonel Sellen's
Colonel case's .
Colonel Haugland's
Colonel Chester's
I'ddonel Baldwin's
Colonel Donghae's
1.t .- col. Ely's
Colonel 11 ,Iman's
1
Colonel Sunthe's
1
Tutal
3
1
1%
1 1 1 1|
2 1 17.
1
57
72
385
Colonel laslet's
4
G
November 3.
Regiments.
Com. Officers.
Staff.
Non com.
Officers.
Fit for Duty.
Sick, present.
Sick, aksent.
"Total,
{ louel Ritzemna's. .
21.
4
12
10
398
First New-York Reg't.
Total,
Colonel Smallwood's.
131
5
49
October 5.
565
First New- York Reg't. S
987
-
Ist New-York Reg't. } }
Wounded.
Miếng
1
270
SEHR COUNTY.
vates, missing1-among those who were killed were
Regiment; and, among those who were went fed, Were Colonel Smallwood and Lieutenants Gobismith and Waters, of the same Regiment. ? General Howe re- ported to the Home Government, evidently including all who were captured in Westchester-county, that one Captain, two Lieutenants, one Quarter-master, and thirty-five Privates were taken, "October 12- " White Plains; "" but we have no means for aster- taining who of these were taken prisoners on the twenty-eighth of October. The loss sustained by the Second Brigade of British troops, commanded by Gen- eral Leslie, was Lieutenant-colonel Carr, Captains Deer- ing and Gore, Lieutenant Jocelyn, Ensign Eagle, om Sergeant, and twenty-nine Rank and File, ' killed ; Lieutenant-colonel Walcott, Captain Fitzgerald, Cap- tain-lieutenant Massey," Lieutenants Taylor, Banks. and Roberts, twelve Sergeants, and one hundred and two Rank and File, " wounded; and two Rank and File, 8 missing. 9 The three Regiments composing the
1 The following table will show the losses which were sustained by each of the several Regiments who were posted on the hill.
Killed.
Wounded.
Mixing.
Regiments.
Captains.
| Lieut.
| Ensign.
Serg ts.
Corporal.
Privates ..
Colonel.
Captniu.
| Lient.
! Ensign.
| Serge's.
Corporals.
Privated.
Privates.
Colonel Brooks's #
Colonel Smallwood's. Colonel Ritzema's
Colonel Haslet's*
Late Col. MeDougal's First New-York
Reg't.
Colonel Webb,
10
Total, as far as reported
1 18
-
co
-
.
-
Doctor Pine, in his letter to James Tilghman, dated "CAMP AT THE " WHITE-PLAINS, 'November 7, 1776," Said, " the number of killed and "wounded, as the report is, in the Camp, amounts only to about ninety ; " but from the wounded I saw, myself, in the hospital and adjacent " houses, there must, at least, be an hundred and thirty wounded. The " m"tuber of killed I don't know."
Letter to a Gentleman in . lanapolis, dated " WHITE PLAINS, October 2). "1576 ;" published in The Pennsylvuma Journal, No. 1;71, PHILADEL. PHIA, Wednesday, November 13, 1776, and in Force's American Archie's, V., ii., 1281 ; Lieutenant colonel Hist to the Maryland Comunit of Sufity. " CAMP BEFORE THE WHITE-PLAINS, 2 November, 1776 ;" etc.
S Return of Prisoners taken during the Campaign, 1776, signed by " J ... " Loring, Commissary of Primary," applied to freund Hoan's dr. spatch to Lord George Germaine, dated " NEW- York, 3 Decetul .r, 1776." 4 In Goueral Lesfie's Return, the killed were stated to have been only twenty-two Rauk aud File.
> In General Leslie's Return, no mention was made of a Field-officer of the Fifth Regiment having been wounded.
6 In General Leslie's Return of Officers wounded, Captain Maisey's name is among those of the Lientenants, although the tabular statement re. turns him as a Captain, in which it agrees with General Howe . Report. He was a Captain- Lieutenant.
7 In General Leslie's Return, the wounded were stated to have huni- bered one hundred and twelve Rauk and File.
8 In General Leslie's Return, no mention was made of any missing Rauk and File.
. In this statement, we have followed General Howe's Return of Com-
* No Returns from these Regiments have been found.
Brigade commanded by Colonel Rall sustained a los, Captains Bracco and Scott, of Colonel Smallwood's | of eight Rank and! File, killed; Lieutenant Muhlbau- sen, one Sergeant, and forty-four Rank and File, wounded; and one horse, killed. The Regiment of Chasseurs and the four Regiments of Grenadiers -- one of them. probably, the half-drowned forlorn-hope -comparing the Brigade commanded by Colonel Donop, sustained a loss of four Rank and File, killed ; Captain De West rhagen, Lieutenant De Rau, and fourteen Rank atl File, wounded ; and two Rank and File. missing. "
As far as our knowledge of it extends, history is wholly silent, concerning the influences which con- trolled General Washington and concerning the ob- jeets which he had in view, when he determined to occupy Chatterton's-hill, with so large a proportion of his already feeble and uncertain Army, including three of the best, if not the best three, of his Regi- ments; " and, especially, at a later hour, when, at a critical moment and in the face of an overwhelming enemy, he determined, also, to strengthen the force whom he had already sent, and to hold the position, at all hazards, sending, for those purposes, another very strong detachment of those troops in whom he reposed his greatest confidence, as soldiers, and whom he could ill-spare from the insufficiently manned lines which he, himself, was then occupying.
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