The Blue and Yellow Brigades
were posted among the vineyards on the road to Custrin; the White
Brigade took post opposite one of the two gates of the town. Hepburn
and the Green Brigade were stationed opposite the other.
As the Swedes advanced the Imperialist garrison, who were 10,000
strong, opened fire with musketry and cannon from the walls. The
weakest point in the defence was assigned by Schomberg to Colonel
Walter Butler, who commanded a regiment of Irish musketeers in the
Imperialist service. In the evening Hepburn and some other officers
accompanied the king to reconnoitre near the walls. A party
of Imperialists, seeing some officers approaching, and judging by
their waving plumes they were of importance, sallied quietly out
of a postern gate unperceived and suddenly opened fire. Lieutenant
Munro, of Munro's regiment, was shot in the leg, and Count Teuffel,
a colonel of the Life Guards, in the arm. A body of Hepburn's
regiment, under Major Sinclair, rushed forward and drove in the
Imperialists, a lieutenant colonel and a captain being captured.
So hotly did they press the Imperialists that they were able to
make a lodgment, on some high ground near the rampart, on which
stood an old churchyard surrounded by a wall, and whence their fire
could sweep the enemy's works. Some cannon were at once brought
up and placed in position here, and opened fire on the Guben gate.
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