He returned to Britton's to see further to the arms there,
exposed on the ground to heavy rains which had fallen the night before,
and thence proceeded to Manchester and lodged there. The enemy encamped
at Westover.
January 8. At half after 7 A. M. he crossed over to Richmond, and
resumed his residence there. The enemy are still retained in their
encampment at Westover by an easterly wind. Colonel John Nicholas has
now three hundred militia at the Forest (six miles off from Westover);
General Nelson, two hundred at Charles City Court-House (eight miles
below Westover); Gibson, one thousand, and Baron Steuben, eight hundred,
on the south side of the river.
January 9. The enemy are still encamped at Westover.
January 10. At 1 P. M. they embark: and the wind having shifted a little
to the north of west, and pretty fresh, they fall down the river. Baron
Steuben marches for Hood's, where their passage may be checked. He
reaches Bland's mills in the evening, within nine miles of Hood's.
January 11. At 8 A. M. the wind due west and strong, they make good
their retreat.
During this period, time and place have been minutely cited, in order
that those who think there was any remissness in the movements of the
Governor, may lay their finger on the point, and say, when and where it
was. Hereafter, less detail will suffice.
Soon after this, General Phillips having joined Arnold with a
reinforcement of two thousand men, they advanced again up to Petersburg,
and about the last of April to Manchester.
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