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Clair, thought that he had been overwhelmed by numbers, be- 

 cause he was attacked, on all sides, by the enemy, though 

 from all the sources of information in our power, we presume 

 the numbers of the two armies were about equal. The Indi- 

 an loss it is presumed, bore a small proportion to ours. 



We close our account of this disastrous defeat, by saying, 

 that, the first line of the second regiment, as encamped, was 

 commanded by General Richard Butler, by Patterson and 

 Clarke. The second line was commmanded by Gaither, Bed- 

 inger and Darke. Of the first line, all the officers were either 

 killed or wounded, except three, and of the artillerists, all 

 were killed except four privates! 



Of the regulars, the following officers were killed, viz: 

 General Richard Butler, Ferguson, Bradford, Spear, Ford, 

 Morgan, Bines, Butts, Hart, Kirkwood, McCrea, Thompson, 

 Phelon, Warren, Balsh, Newman, Kelso, McMickle, Purdy, 

 Anderson, Lukens, Burgess, Crawford, Moorehead, Cribbs, 

 Smith, Piatt, Van Swaringen, Tipton, McMath, Reeves, Doyle, 

 Brooks, Greyton, Cummings, Beatty, Doctors Chase and Beatty. 

 Wounded officers of the regulars, viz : Lieutenant Colonel 

 George Gibson, Major Thomas Butler, Captain Price, Colonel 

 Sargent, Captain Darke, Buchanan, Lysle, Boyd, Trueman, 

 Malartie, Cobb, Wilson, Ensign Purdy, Lieutenant Colonel 

 Darke, and others. 



Of the militia, killed, viz: Oldham, Lemon, Briggs and 

 Montgomery. Wounded : Captain Thomas, Captain Madison, 

 Lieutenant Stagner, Lieutenant Owens, Lieutenant Walters, 

 and Lieutenant Gano. 



The fugitives arrived at Fort Jefferson, about sunset, and 

 continued their march, that night, at ten o'clock. The ground 

 was covered with snow, two or three inches deep. They 

 marched to Fort Washington, by the way of Fort Hamilton. 

 Before the troops began their march, a large number of the 

 sentinels of Fort Jefferson deserted and fled, such was their 

 terror at what they had heard of this dreadful disaster. The 

 march was a very disorderly one, from Fort Jefferson to Fort 

 Washington. 



