| Description | From the Great Fly near Still Water on Hudson's River about one mile and a half from the Rebel army under Gates, Arnold, Stark Poor, Nixon, Lennard, Paterson and Morgan, writes in the woods on the march from Saratoga, disposition of the columns, attack by a corps of riflemen who were repulsed by Brigadier Frazer's corps, a general action ensued which lasted from "half an hour after four until night when the whole enemy gave way" leaving five or six hundred on the ground to be buried, he writes that the army is in high health and spirits and with no doubt of speedy success but will not speak more particularly in case this should fall into the enemy's hands |