The Litchfield County post., 1828-12-25

up, one after another, fired off their pieces and run in.
 Our advance were we'll furnished with bayOnets, and they immediately charged upon the picket, and we dashed after tbem and trampled them to death with our hor- scs, riding over them like a, whirlwind without speaking word or firingsa shot This was scarcely done, when we heard the firing of the other division at the op. posite quarters, so admirably timed had been the arrangement, and we immediate ly galloped into tho centre of the town. foot and horse, determined to ride the enemy down or bayonet them before they had time to form.
 Washington was drcadfully' exposed.- The first picket thinking this a second att tack of the same little Skirnishing party that fired into them before, neglected to give the alarm, and the outposts though they fought most gallantly, retreating step by step behind the houses, disputing every inch, and presenting their bright bayonetS without flash of powder, wherever we rode in upon them, so that we could not with all our cutting and squirting, force our horses upon them, and then the moment that we faced about, blazing away upon us, and running to the oext house, were driven in.
 At last we had an opportunity for fair play; the Hessians were formed, and for- ming, the whole glittering with baynets.
 A tremendous struggle was going at our right, under the very eye of Washington, with the enemy's artillery, which was ta- ken-when with troop of horse Archi- bald rode down with his cap on, his sword flashing like frebrand in the light and smoke of the musketry, charge charge he cried, my brave fellows, and provoke them to fire. Another troop! and anoth- CT thundered down from the right and left, but with no visible effect upon the in- vincible Germans the front rank kneel- ed all around, while the rest were forming, and presented their bayonets without firing shot.
 By heaven said Archibald to Captain Washington, shouting as if his heart would break, will try them again, ,and as he said so,rode at full speeds near that it appear en to me that he could have struck the enemy with his sword, and fired his pistol into their faces. The next moment all the Hessans brought their pieces to their cheeks, and poured most tremendous volIey in upon us; I saw my father fall; Arthur fell in his stirrups, but Archibald as if prepared for this very thing, shouted, wheel and charge.
 Wheel and charge repeated hundred voices in our rcar-wheel and charge.
 We obeyed, and the snow flew, and the armor flashed, and the next moment hun- dred of the enemy, the whole of his front rank, were trampled to death before US, and twenty human heads rolled upon the ground among the feet of our horses.
 The infantry under Green poured in volley after volley at the same time and Knox having brought round his light field pieces to bear as if they had been blunder- busses, played in upon them an uninter- rupted volley of thunder and smoke.
 It was impossible to stand it no human beings could have endured the hurricane of fire and bullets longer. They threw down their arms, about one thousand men in all, and it was then, when it was neces- sary to move about the quieter operations of strife, that we began to feel the intense coldness of the night, the keen air cutting into our new wounds like rough broken glass. ..