He was rewarded by being made a baronet, and by being voted a pension, by parliament, of five thousand a year.
James Walsham, having no duties during the fight at the camp, had taken a musket and lain down behind the logs with the soldiers, and had, all the afternoon, kept up a fire at the trees and bushes behind which the enemy were hiding.

After the battle, he had volunteered to assist the over-worked surgeons, whose labours lasted through the night.

When he found that no forward movement was likely to take place, he determined to leave the camp.

He therefore asked Captain Rogers, who was the leader of a band of scouts, and a man of extraordinary energy and enterprise, to allow him to accompany him on a scouting expedition towards Ticonderoga.
"I shall be glad to have you with me," Rogers replied; "but you know it is a service of danger.

It is not like work with regular troops, where all march, fight, stand, or fall together.