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The 23rd Saves the Army From a report on Stoney Creek: "A view of Gen. Chandler's encampment will be sufficient to show that his disaster was owing to its arrangement. Its centre being its weakest point, and its being discovered by the enemy in the evening, received the combined attack of his whole force, and his line was completely cut. The gallantry of the 5th, 25th, and part of the 23rd, and light troops saved the army. Of the 5th it is said, that when the day broke not a man was missing-and that a part of the 23rd under Major Armstrong was found sustaining its left flank. Their fire was irresistible-and the enemy was compelled to give way. Could he have been pressed the next morning his destruction was inevitable. He was dispersed in every direction, and even his commanding general was missing, without his hat or horse. I understand he was found the next morning almost famished at a distance of four miles from the scene of action." Gen. Morgan Lewis
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