[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] They ran and left their dead behind them, which they seldom do unless obliged to." 5 The troops proceeded to the Genesee Flats and the Indians retreated to Niagara, their confederacy broken. The Second Reg-iment returned to Morristown, erecting there log huts for their use. Colonel Van Cortlandt was ordered to Philadelphia to a court-martial on Arnold. The mem-bers agreed with one accord to cashier him; but they were overruled and the sentence changed to a repri-mand from the commander-in-chief, "a fatal lenity, as events subsequently proved." In 1780 the regi-ment marched to Northern New York. The colonel was sent to West Point to command a regiment of in-fantry under Lafayette, who had two brigades under his command and was stationed at Tappan. Lafay-ette went from there to Virginia, and the five New York regiments were consolidated under the command of Colonel Van Cortlandt, who was ordered to Fort Schuyler (now Utica) to relieve Colonel Cochrane. He went on and removed the cannon, etc., to Fort Herkimer, where a new fort was commenced. From here he was sent to Albany, and thence to West Point, receiving secret orders when here (from Wash-ington) to proceed through New Jersey to Yorktown. On his arrival "Van Cortlandt was ordered out with a strong picket guard to relieve Colonel Schammil, who had invested the town; but this officer, unfortu-nately mistaking a British patrol of horse for our own men, had been surrounded, and was mortally wounded.