at the hospital at Lachine, Quebec. At The Cedars, most of Bedel's Regiment was captured by the British and their Native American allies. Eight days later his men were exchanged for British soldiers captured at the St. Jean. Both Bedel and his second-in-command, Major Isaac Butterfield, were court-martialed for the disaster at The Cedars. Bedel was found not guilty, while Butterfield was found guilty of cowardice. Bedel's Regiment was disbanded on January 1, 1777, when enlistments expired. He recruited a series of ranger regiments for New Hampshire. Part of his command became part of the Green Mountain Boys at the Battle of Quebec. Bedel served as a first lieutenant in a militia regiment at the Battle of Bennington under General John Stark, became a staff officer for Generals Philip Schuyler and Horatio Gates at Saratoga concerning Indian affairs, and was restored to regimental command. On December 11, 1779, General George Washington ordered Colonel Bedel to raise another regiment at Coos to help Colonel Moses Hazen and General Jacob Bayley in the construction of a possible invasion route to Canada and to conduct an investigation of misconduct and fraud against the Continental Army Quartermaster at Coos, New Hampshire. Later years After the war, Bedel worked unsuccessfully to have lands in northern New Hampshire and Vermont granted to Abenakis who had sided with the United States during the war. Some early histories state that Bedel became a general in the New Hampshire, Vermont, or New York militia, but historian Albert Batchellor could find no evidence of this and believed it to be an error because Bedel was always addressed by his contemporaries as "Colonel". Bedel died in Haverhill, New Hampshire. References Batchellor, Albert S. The Ranger Service in the Upper Valley of the Connecticut.... Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press, 1903. Available online from the Internet Archive. Bittinger, Rev J. Q. History of Haverhill, N. H Haverhill, New Hampshire: The Cohos Steam Press, 1888. Calloway, Colin G. The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities. Cambridge University Press, 1995. (hardback). Derby, Samuel Carroll. A List of The Revolutionary Soldiers of Dublin, N.H. Columbus, Ohio: Spahr & Glenn, 1901. Available online via Google Book Search. Heitman, Francis B. Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army during the War of the Revolution. New, enlarged, and revised edition. Washington, D.C.: Rare Book Shop Publishing Company, 1914. Available on Google