eport will not
permit me even to name all of those who on this occasion
established claims to the gratitude of their fellow citizens;
much less to particularize individual merit. Lieutenant-Colonels
Hopkins, M'Burney, Churchhill and Crosby, and Majors Lee, Marcle,
Wilson, Lawrence, Burr, Dunham, Kellogg and Ganson, are entitled
to the highest praise for their gallant conduct, their steady and
persevering exertions. Lieutenant-Colonel Dobbin being prevented
by severe indisposition from taking the field, Major Hall,
assistant inspector general, volunteered his services to join
Major Lee in the command of the volunteer regiment; and Major Lee
and every other officer speak in the highest terms of the gallant
and good conduct of this young officer.

Captain Fleming, who commanded the Indians, was, as he always is,
in the front of the battle. There is not a more intrepid soldier
in the army. I should be ungrateful were I to omit the names of
Captains Knapp and Hull of the volunteers, and Captain Parker and
Lieutenant Chatfield of the militia, by whose intrepidity I was,
during the action, extricated from the most unpleasant situation.
Captains Richardson, Buel and Kennedy, Lieutenants Parkhurst and
Brown, and Adjutants Dobbin, Bates and Robinson, particularly
distinguished themselves. The patriotic conduct of Captain
Elliot, with twenty young gentlemen, who volunteered from
Batavia, and of Major Hubbard, with fourteen men exempted by age
from military duty, should not be omitted. They were conspicuous
during the action.

You will excuse me if I shall seem partial in speaking of my own
family, consisting of my brigade major, Frazer, my volunteer
aid-de-camp Riddle (both first lieutenants in the 15th infantry),
Captain Bigger, of the Canadian volunteers, Messrs. Williams and
Delapierre, volunteer aids for the day, all of whom, except Mr.
Williams, were wounded.

Lieutenants Frazer and Riddle were engaged for the most of the
preceding day with fatigue parties, cutting roads for the advance
of the column through the swamp, and falling timber to the rear,
and within 150 yards of the enemy's right; which service they
executed with so much address as to avoid discovery; and on the
succeeding day they conducted the two columns to the attack.
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