[Webb's Ferry, Pa.]
[Extract]
[October] 9th .... Nine Rebel Galleys attacked our Battery of 2 medium 12 pounders but were beaten back. We lost one Grenadier killed, three wounded and a waggoner and two Horses killed. This evening on the turning of the tide two Brigs and a floating Battery moved up between Little Mud Island and Fort Island....
Montresor, Journals, 463-64. Five sentences of this entry are not printed here. They relate to the weather, the activity of the American garrison at Fort Mifflin, and intelligence of Sir Henry Clinton's expedition up the Hudson River.
