Thus was ended the great “Battle
Of the Bridge” across Dix River,
Where the corps of jolly Guardsmen
Captured Stein, the burly Colonel
Of the brave Cornstalk Militia,
Of the dainty Regimentals,
On the fair October midnight,
Eighteen hundred eight and thirty.[3]
[3]W. S. Miller, Jr., was made Captain of the “Mulligan Guards,” a company of Militia, in 1874.