A battle piece

A BATTLE PIECE

By Ernest Haycox

Author of “With Grape and Bayonet,” “A Cup of Sugar,” etc.

It was late on the night of August 26, 1776. The sun had set blood red beyond the Jersey palisades, touching, as it dipped, the British ships in New York harbor. The nine thousand Continentals camped on Brooklyn Heights, with their backs to the East River and their gun muzzles pointed...