FOOTNOTES:
[104] One Massachusetts colonel, who had urgently applied to Ward for permission to go to the Hill, but was refused, three times ignored the order of Putnam to come to his assistance—Putnam being from Connecticut. See Frothingham's "Siege," 168, note.
[105] Adams Letters, 67.
[106] Bancroft, iv, 583.
[107] Bancroft, iv, 590.
[108] These quotations are from Lodge's "Washington," i.
[109] Adams Letters, 65.
[110] Sparks, "Writings of Washington," iii, 1.
[111] "Writings of Washington," iii, 491.
[112] "Writings of Washington," iii, 23.