At 10 A. M., we all
marched from our encampment and crossed St. George's ferry to Long Island. Just
after we had joined the brigade, we had a heavy cannonade, with some small
arms. This night we camped in the woods, without tents, in a hard rain.
Sentries firing all night.
SOURCE: “Diary of
Lieutenant James McMichael,” William H. Egle, Editor, Pennsylvania
Archives, Second Series, Vol. XV: Journals and Diaries of the War of the
Revolution with Lists of Officers and Soldiers, 1775-1783, p. 198
We marched to the
lines at dawn of the morning and there lay under arms 'till 2 o'clock P. M.,
when we were alarmed that the enemy had come out to attack us. Going to the
summit of the hill, we found the alarm false, and so returned to the ferry. We
have had an incessant cannonade these four days past. We have the pleasing
intelligence by some of our men who were captured and escaped, that the loss of
the enemy is greater than ours.
SOURCE: “Diary of
Lieutenant James McMichael,” William H. Egle, Editor, Pennsylvania
Archives, Second Series, Vol. XV: Journals and Diaries of the War of the
Revolution with Lists of Officers and Soldiers, 1775-1783, p. 199
