[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Lee thereupon detached two of Heath's regiments for his own use but the next morning, after sober second thought, he concluded that he was playing too bold a part, and ordered them back to Heaths 410 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY camp. On the 4th, while at Haverstraw, says Bancroft, he intercepted 3,000 men who had been hurried down for Washington's relief by General Schuyler, of the Northern Army, and incorporated them in his division. Later he ordered General Heath to send him three regi-ments which had come from Fort Ticonderoga. He marched leis-urely through New Jersey, still taking pains to have it understood that he considered himself an independent commander. To a com-mittee of congress he stated that it was not his intention " to join the army with Washington," and to Heath he wrote, " I am in hopes of reconquering the Jerseys." On the 13th of December, ten days after passing the Hudson, he was made prisoner at Baskingridge, N. J., by some British horsemen, having just completed a letter to General Gates, in which he said: " Entre nous, a certain great man