...troops, and filled their minds with apprehension and despair. The militia, instead of calling forth their utmost efforts to a brave and manly opposition, in...our losses, are dismayed, intractable, and impatient *o return home. Great numbers of them have gone off, — in some instances, almost by whole regiments,...

...the army that his skill had saved deserted him. The militia went off", — I use his own words, — "in some instances almost by whole regiments, in many by half ones, and by companies at a time." The regulars, if any part. of this irregular body deserved the name, were " infected by their example."...