[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] it was necessary to cut away a part to get a mortar to play on the enemy. One of Captain Vandenburgh's fatigue party was killed the first stroke he struck by a nine-pound ball, which carried oil' his thigh dose to his body. On seeing t his, a volunteer was called for, as the case was desperate, when a soldier who had been disgraced, as he told me, without a cause, took the place and performed the work, although during its execution three balls were fired at him, all of which came within six inches, and one almost covered his head with sand. His name was Peter Christian Voughl and his brother is my neighbor at Peekskill. One night, the enemy, I sup-pose to Bare appearances, made a sortie on a French battery by surprise, killed some, and spiked the guns, but were soon obliged to retire with some loss." 1 On the 19th of October, 1781, the British army sur-rendered, The prisoners were sent to the interior, ami as both (iencral Clinton and Colonel Dayton were ill, Colonel Van Cortlandt took command of the New York Division and the New Jersey troops, and marched seven hundred Hessian and British prisoners to Fredericksburg, delivering them to the Virginia militia.