and silent, and the enemy didn’t see us until we were near.  We gave the first volley, and rushed upon them.  I saw through the smoke, Colonel Herrick was coming up.  We had the Indians between us, and you should have heard them yell, and whoop, and ring their cow-bells, but they wouldn’t stand; they fled through our detachments and left the Hessians to shift for themselves.  Soon after we commenced the attack, General Stark made that short address you have heard so much about.  Josiah Wemyss, one of my old friends, was near the General when he spoke.  He told me Stark raised himself in his stirrups, and said:  ’See there, men! there are the red-coats; before night they are ours, or Molly Stark will he a widow!  Forward!’ and they did forward and rush upon the Tories with such force that they drove ’em across the stream, upon the Germans, who were then forced from their breastworks on the heights.  Then the battle became general.  Such a tremendous fire I never saw before, and never expect to see again.  Colonel Baum and his dragoons fought like brave men, and for a long time could not be broken.  We attacked them on one side, and Stark on the other, but they stood their ground, and when their powder gave out, Colonel Baum led them to the charge with the sword.  But it couldn’t last:  our men were fighting like mad, and our firelocks brought down the enemy at a tremendous rate.  Many of us had no bagonets—­I among them, yet we marched up to the Germans just the same as if we had the best arms.  At last, the Germans gave way and fled, leaving their artillery and baggage on the field.  Our men didn’t pursue.  You see, General Stark, in order to give the men every inducement to do their best on the field, promised them all the plunder that could be taken from the enemy; and as the Germans fled, we all scattered to seize on what they had left.  I had the good luck to get a sword and one of the heavy hats which the dragoons wore.  I didn’t care much about the value of the things in regard to the money they’d bring, but I thought they’d be somewhat to keep in the family, and make them remember that battle.  While I was looking for more things, I caught sight of a man riding at a furious rate towards General Stark.  He called out, ’Rally! rally! more Germans! rally!’ and sure enough, we saw a large body of the enemy coming out of the woods, in good order.  It was the reinforcement Baum had sent for.  General Stark had collected a small body of men, when I hurried to join a few of our regiment that Colonel Nichols had rallied.  I thought that our victory was about to be snatched from us; but just then Colonel Warner’s regiment arrived from Manchester, fresh and well-armed.  They attacked the Germans at once, while Stark, with about two hundred of us, pushed forward to aid them.  Then began an obstinate struggle, not like the other fight with the Germans and Tories; but a running fight on the hills and plains, just the kind of skrimmage in which a hundred Green