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after some skirmishes, he
conducts them with trifling loss to the main army; Samuel Rowland to
Commodore Morris on this subject; certificate of the Rev. Hezekiah
Ripley, chaplain of General Silliman's brigade, respecting their retreat
under the command of Colonel Burr; also of Isaac Jennings and
Andrew Wakeman, and a letter from Nathaniel Judson, in relation to
the same affair

CHAPTER VIII.
Letter from Colonel Burr to Mrs. Edwards; the British army move from
Brunswick to Princeton; General Washington crosses the Delaware;
letter to Ogden; Burr ordered by General Washington, through Putnam,
to proceed to Norwalk, Fairfield, and other places on the Sound, to
"settle a line of intelligence," &c.; on his return to camp, July 21st,
1777, is appointed by Washington a lieutenant-colonel in Malcolm's
regiment; Burr to Washington; joins his regiment in the Clove, Orange
county; the British come out from New-York, 2000 strong, on a
marauding party; Burr marches his regiment thirty miles in the
afternoon and evening to attack them; before morning captures their
picket-guards by surprise; the enemy retreat, leaving their plunder
behind them; statement of this affair by Judge George Gardner and
Lieutenant Hunter, with other details respecting Burr; Putnam orders
him to join Parsons's brigade with his regiment, for the purpose of
re-enforcing Washington; on the second day of his march, is ordered by
General Varnum to halt and defend the bridge at Pompton against the
British; in November, is stationed with his regiment, in advance of the
main army, at White Marsh, in Pennsylvania; goes into winter quarters
at Valley Forge; by the advice of General McDOUGALL, he is ordered
by Washington to take command of a strong body of militia, posted to
defend the Gulf near Valley Forge, all his senior officers having been
withdrawn for the purpose of giving him the command; an intended
mutiny suppressed by his promptitude and intrepidity; is of the Lee and
Gates party, opposed to Washington; misunderstanding with Lord
Stirling; letter from Lord Stirling; letter to him

CHAPTER IX.
Letter from Malcolm to Burr; battle of Monmouth, June 28t; arrest and
trial of General Lee; Burr dissatisfied with Washington's orders to him
during the action, in which he commanded a brigade;
Lieutenant-colonel Dummer, under his immediate command, killed;
Burr's horse shot under him; his health greatly impaired by fatigue and

exposure previous to and during the action; ordered by Washington, the
day after the battle, to proceed to Elizabethtown to watch the
movements of the enemy; several notes of Lord Stirling to him on the
subject; joins his regiment; ordered by the Baron de Kalb to West Point;
the legislature of New-York adopt rigid measures in regard to the tories;
Governor Clinton applies to the commander-in-chief to appoint a
confidential continental officer to take charge of them, &c.; General
Washington designates Colonel Burr; letter from Robert Benson to
Burr on the subject; proceedings of the Board of Commissioners for
defeating Conspiracies, transmitted in their letter to Burr; letter from
Theodore Sedgwick; from General Lee; Burr to Washington, asking a
furlough on account of ill health, without pay; from Washington,
granting the furlough, but ordering the pay; Burr declines accepting it
on these conditions, and joins his regiment at West Point; letter from
Mrs. Montgomery to Burr; ordered by General McDOUGALL to take
command of a brigade at Haverstraw, his seniors having been
withdrawn for the purpose; ordered by McDOUGALL to take
command of the lines in Westchester; letter to McDOUGALL,
detailing the arrangement of his pickets, outposts, &c.; to
McDOUGALL; from Major Platt; from McDOUGALL

CHAPTER X.
Letter from Burr to McDOUGALL; from Paterson; from Major Platt;
to McDOUGALL; from McDOUGALL; from Platt; from
McDOUGALL; from General Putnam; from McDOUGALL; from
Samuel Young, Esq., of Westchester, to Commodore Morris, detailing
Burr's military career on the lines

CHAPTER XI.
Letter from Burr to General Washington resigning his command; from
Washington; from Mrs. General Montgomery; from Paterson; from

McDOUGALL; at the request of General McDOUGALL, Burr
consents, at great hazard, to be the bearer of a verbal confidential
communication to General Washington; amusing incident at
Townsend's iron-works, in Orange county, on this expedition; in July,
1779, the British under Tryon land at East Haven; Burr, although
confined to a sick-bed, arises, sallies forth, takes command of the
students in the college green, and checks for a time the advance of the
enemy; Colonel Platt's account of Burr's military life

CHAPTER XII.
Description of Burr's person and manner; anecdote illustrative of his
tact at correcting an ill-timed expression to a lady; his first
acquaintance with Mrs. Prevost, subsequently his wife; letter from Mr.
Monroe, late President of the United States, to Mrs. Prevost; General
Washington to Mrs. Prevost; from Paterson; from Colonel Troup; the
same; from Paterson; to Paterson; from Troup; from Major Alden; from
Paterson; from