Note 116 — Chapter IV

Little's Order Book, Document 2. But it seems that Remsen's Long Island militiamen were seized by a panic, either during this skirmish or at a later hour, on the Bedford Road, and ran from their posts. Sullivan rebuked them sharply in his orders of the 24th (Document 2), and confined them thereafter to "fatigue" duty. This proved to be only the first of several militia panics experienced in this campaign.