238 the services of lietit.-colohel frahcis dowman, r.a. 
tlie command of Sir H. Clinton and Lord Cornwallis moving at 3 o'clock, 
and tlie 2nd under Lieutenant-General Knyphausen at 6, and follow¬ 
ing tlie baggage of tlie 1st; the face of tlie country though much 
better settled and more open than at the beginning of our route, not 
admitting of the two divisions taking different roads. The army 
again encamped in two lines near the Black Horse, where the Com¬ 
mander-in-chief had his head-quarters. One of the rebel party who 
had fired upon the jagers on the 20th instant and wa's taken prisoner, 
proving to be a deserter from the 28th regiment, was tried and 
condemned by a general court martial at Mount Holly, and this day 
executed and left hanging on a tree near the high road. 
June 23rd .—From this encampment the army marched in two 
columns. Brigadier-General Leslie's corps consisting of the 7th, 26th 
and 63rd regiments of foot, and reinforced by Hovenden's troop of 
provincial dragoons forming the vanguard of the 1st division, which 
formed the left column and marched at 4 o'clock. The 2nd division 
under Lieutenant-General Knyphausen, led by the 2nd battalion of 
light infantry formed the right, and marched as soon as the 1st 
division was off the ground ; this column he ordered to pay every at¬ 
tention to their right flank. The enemy had all along made attempts 
to obstruct, or at least retard our march by pulling up the bridges 
thrown across the small creeks and causeways, and felling timber 
across the roads, but have never appeared with any troops to protect 
or defend any of the passes, though many very strong by nature, and 
which might have been rendered much more so by art, occurred in 
our route. A party of about 50 men showed themselves at a mill in 
Wreckels Town Creek, but upon the first appearance of the advanced 
guard of General Clinton's column, went off without firing a shot, 
however, they exchanged several upon this column coming up to 
Crosswick, by which a captain of the Queen's rangers was wounded, 
and one rebel killed, one wounded, and another taken, but upon our 
bringing up two 3-prs. belongingto the 1st battalion of light infantry, 
they again went off, and the 1st division advanced to Crosswick, the 
advanced corps under Brigadier-General Leslie being pushed towards 
Bordenton. Lieutenant-General Knyphausen's division lay this 
night at Wreckels Town. Brigadier-General Leslie's corps was this 
evening fired upon with cannon from a work the enemy had erected 
on Bordenton Creek, which he crossed the next morning, and marched 
through Bordenton, exchanging some few cannon shots on the enemy 
endeavouring to molest him by pulling down a draw-bridge in order 
to prevent his effecting a junction with General Clinton at Crosswick. 
June 24th .—The 2nd division, under Lieutenant-General Kny¬ 
phausen, marched at 4 o'clock in the morning, and formed upon the 
heights above Wall's Mills, whilst a bridge over Crosswick Creek, 
which had been destroyed by the enemy, was repaired ; this was com¬ 
pleted about 11 o'clock, and all the column over it by 12, bending 
their course to Emely's Town, where they arrived about 3 o'clock and 
lay that night. As soon as General Clinton received advice of General 
Knyphausen's column having passed the bridge and destroyed it, he 
