on, one fled disgracefully, leaving most of their officers to be taken prisoners.
The other two, though they made a stout resistance, were broken and dispersed, and a large number of them captured.
After a disastrous retreat, or rather flight, Schuyler collected the troops of the Northern army to the number of 5,000 men at Fort Edward, on the Hudson.
But he could not make a stand even there, and was obliged to continue his retreat to the mouth of the Mohawk.
The loss of Ticonderoga with it defend a post till we shoot a general.
Disasters, the unavoidable result of weakness, were ascribed to the incapacity or cowardice of the officers.
Suggestions of treachery were even whispered, and the prejudices of the New Englanders against Schuyler — for even the North, at that time, was divided and distracted by bitter sectional prejudices, of which now, fortunately, hardly a trace remains — broke out with new violence.
But all this disaster and confusion did not prevent, within two or t
olate a truce, 909; reference to, 913.
Hallett, B. F., delegate to constitutional convention, 118.
Half Moon, Porter attempts to silence battery,791.
Hamlin, reference to, 634.
Hampden, speculation trade carried on, 843.
Hampton, Wade, in Lacy's letter, 881; Lee's conversation in regard to Mahone, 884, 886.
Hampton Roads, fleet in, 774-775; reference 786; Lincoln meets Confederate commissioners at, 902.
Hampton, colored infantry and artillery at, 638.
Hamilton, Col. Schuyler, volunteers as aid on Butler's staff, 201; sent to Washington, 206; letter from, 226.
Hancock, General, reference to, 645, 651, 652, 686, 712, 715; joins in expedition against Petersburg, 689; waives rank in favor of Smith, 689, 692; article reflecting upon, 700; quoted upon attack on Petersburg, 705; commands expedition against Deep Bottom, 717-718; reference to, 878; nominated for President, 968.
Harper's Ferry, John Brown at, 133-134; Confederate troops at, 217.
Hare, Dr., of Ph
