The Litchfield County post., 1829-01-22

just as the eastern sky began to redden & ! undulate, and cloud after cloud to roll up and heave, like Il great curtain upon the wind, and the whole heavens seemed dis- charging all its beauty and brightness upon one spot-I happened to turn, and saw the tall Pole, barc-headed, tilting about on his horse, like some warlike presence, come> up out of lbe solid earth to worship on the , snmmit of the hill behind us it might be, 1 for the noble carriage of the man, the mar 1 tial bearing of the soldier, would permit ei- 1hcr inierpretation-it might be h the aw- 1 !ul employment of devotion, ,or in the more earthward one, of martial CbServation.-- But suddenly he refined bis charger, shook the heavy dew from his horseman'S cap, & replaced it, and leaped headlong down the hill, just as bright flash passed away on the horizon followed by loud report ; and the next moment part of our ranks were covered with dust and turf thrown up by cannon ball that struck within hundred yards of the place he had just left. Our horses pricked up their ears at the sound and, all at once as if hundred trumpetS were playing in the wind, came on the en- cmy in his advance. Pulaski unshea,Eed his sword, called out a select body, and set ! off at full gallop to more distant elcva- tion, where we saw the enemy advancing in two columns ; one under knyphausen, : which n,ovod in trcnlenduouS steadiness, 1 like dark, solid mass, in a direction to- wards Maxwell; the othefA under Corn wallis, which seemed to threaten the right flank of our main body. Intelligence was 1 Dtal1, Inducements called in, from the horse we had left.
 We kept OUT position, awaiting for an hour the sound of conflict; at last, hea- " volley rattled along the sly-a few mo- ments passed, and another followed, like a storm of hail upon drum heads. The whole air wrang with it another, and an- other followed, and then gradually ncreas- ing in loudness, came peal after peal upon us, until it resembled one continual clap of thunder, rolling about an illuminated va pour.
 But Pulaski, with all his impetuosity, NNtls General, and knew his duty too we'll sXto hazard any movement till he should be able to see the operations of the enemy in
 the vapor below. Meanwhile, several li,- tie parties that we had sent out came in, one after the other in full gallop, with the news that knyphansen had borne down on Maxwell in magnificent siyle--bccn beat en back again; but that he had final ly prevailed ,and that Maxwell had retreat ed across the river.
 1 A thin vapor now rose from the green earth below us, and completely covered tie energy from our view. It was no lon- ger possible to follow him, except by the sound of the tread which we could feel in the solid earth jarring ourselves and our horses and now and then quick glim- mering in the mist, as some standard was raised above it-some weapon fourished, or some musket shot through it-like a rocket.
 About an hour after, horseman dash- ed through the smoke, on the very verge , of tho horizon-and after scouting the field for whole mile within view communica- ted with two or three others, who set off in different directions-one to us, with or ders to hurry down to the ford, where the commander-in chief was determined to fall upon knyphausen with all his power, be- fore Cornwallis could come to his aid. Ii was noble and hazardous game Pulaski whose war horse literally houndered and frightened along the broken and stony prec- ipice by which he descended, ,kept his eyes warily to the right, as if not certain the or der would not be countermanded.
 We soon fell in with Greene who was posting all on fire,to give Khyphausen bat ,le: and, the next moment, saw Sullivan in full march, over d distant hill, (upon which the morning sun broke just then, as leaving the heavens for while) to the en- emy's flank.
 This arrangement would have been fatal to knyphausen; but unluckily there was a stop put to it almost in the very moment when we were ready to fall upon him, by the alarming intelligence that CornwalIis had moved off to another quar- ter. There was moment of irresoluton doubt. It was the death of us. Greene was recalled, and Sullivan commanded to halt. Hardly had this happened, and our horses were covered with sweat and frot I-fretting like chained tigers upon the bit; our men covered with dust, and blinded b. the wind and heal-for it was extremely hct and sultry-when heavy cannonade was heard on our right flank and Greene