The battle of Germantown, which lasted two hours and forty minutes, was a very severe one, and the loss on both sides was great, considering the numbers engaged and the nature of the conflict. The amount of loss has been variously computed; that of the Americans was estimated by Washington, a fortnight after the battle, *** at about one thousand men in killed, wounded, and missing. **** There were fewer killed on the part of the British, the number probably not exceeding one hundred; while their whole loss, according to Howe s official account of the affair, was, in killed, wounded, and missing, five hundred and thirty-five. (v) Among these were several valuable officers, the most distinguished of whom were General James Agnew (vi) and Lieutenant-colonel Bird. Their remains lie inhumed together, * Sullivan's letter to Mesheek Weare, president of New Hampshire, in the New York Historical Society; John Eager Howard's letter to Timothy Pickering; Gordon; Boita; Ramsay; Marshall. The latter author was in Woodford's brigade, and describes a portion of this battle from his own observation. ** Washington said, in a letter to the president of Congress, written on the 7th of October, three days after the battle, ''It is with much chagrin and mortification I add, that every account confirms the opinion I at first entertained, that our troops retreated at the instant when victory was declaring herself in our favor. The tumult, disorder, and even despair, which, it seems, had taken place in the British army, were scarcely to be paralleled; and, it is said, so strongly did the idea of a retreat prevail, that Chester was fixed on as a place of rendezvous. I can discover no other cause for not improving this happy opportunity than the extreme haziness of the weather." Writing, at the same time, to Governor Trumbull of Connecticut, Washington said, "But the morning was so excessively foggy, that we could not see the confusion the enemy were in, and the advantage we had gained; and fearing to push too far through a strong village, we retired, after an engagement of two hours, bringing off all our artillery with us. We did not know until after the affair was over how near we were to gaining a complete victory." *** See letter to his brother, dated October 17th, 1777.