[List of Documents]:PAGE
[No. 1.]General Greene's Orders—Camp on Long Island[5]
[" 2.]General Sullivan's Orders—Camp on Long Island[27]
[" 3.]General Orders[30]
[" 4.]Washington to the Massachusetts Assembly[32]
[" 5.]General Parsons to John Adams[33]
[" 6.]General Scott to John Jay[36]
[" 7.]Colonel Joseph Trumbull to his Brother[40]
[" 8.]Colonel Trumbull to his Father[41]
[" 9.]Colonel Moses Little to his Son[42]
[" 10.]Lieutenant-Colonel Henshaw to his Wife[44]
[" 11.]Deposition by Lieutenant-Colonel Henshaw[47]
[" 12.]Colonel Edward Hand to his Wife[48]
[" 13.]Major Edward Burd to Judge Yeates[48]
[" 14.]Lieutenant Jasper Ewing to Judge Yeates[49]
[" 15.]John Ewing to Judge Yeates[50]
[" 16.]Colonel Haslet to Cæsar Rodney[51]
[" 17.]Colonel G.S. Silliman to his Wife[52]
[" 18.]Colonel Silliman to Rev. Mr. Fish[57]
[" 19.]Account of the Battle of Long Island[58]
[" 20.]Journal of Colonel Samuel Miles[60]
[" 21.]Lieutenant-Colonel John Brodhead to ——[63]
[" 22.]Colonel William Douglas to his Wife[66]
[" 23.]General Woodhull to the New York Convention[73]
[" 24.]General Washington to Abraham Yates[74]
[" 25.]Colonel Hitchcock to Colonel Little[75]
[" 26.]Major Tallmadge's Account of the Battles of Long Island and White Plains[77]
[" 27.]Account of Events by Private Martin[81]
[" 28.]Captain Joshua Huntington to ——[84]
[" 29.]Captain Tench Tilghman to his Father[85]
[" 30.]Captain John Gooch to Thomas Fayerweather[88]
[" 31.]Account of the Retreat from New York and Affair of Harlem Heights,
by Colonel David Humphreys
[89]
[" 32.]Testimony Respecting the Retreat from New York[92]
[" 33.]Major Baurmeister's Narrative[95]
[" 34.]Colonel Chester to Joseph Webb[98]
[" 35.]Colonel Glover to his Mother[99]
[" 36.]General Greene to Colonel Knox[100]
[" 37.]Diary of Rev. Mr. Shewkirk, Moravian Pastor, New York[101]
[" 38.]Major Fish to Richard Varick[127]
[" 39.]Surgeon Eustis to Dr. Townsend[129]
[" 40.]Captain Nathan Hale to his Brother[131]
[" 41.]Extract from a Letter from New York[132]
[" 42.]Extracts from the London Chronicle[133]
[" 43.]Extract from the Memoirs of Colonel Rufus Putnam[136]
[" 44.]Scattering Orders by Generals Lee, Spencer, Greene, and Nixon[141]
[" 45.]General Lee to Colonel Chester[145]
[" 46.]Captain Bradford's Account of the Capture of General Lee[146]
[" 47.]General Oliver Wolcott to his Wife[147]
[" 48.]Captain William Hull to Andrew Adams[151]
[" 49.]Colonel Knox to his Wife[152]
[" 50.]Colonel Haslet to Cæsar Rodney[156]
[" 51.]Journal of Captain Thomas Rodney[158]
[" 52.]Position of the British at the Close of the Campaign[162]
[" 53.]Narrative of Lieutenant Jabez Fitch[167]
[" 54.]Extract from the Journal of Lieutenant William McPherson[168]
[" 55.]Deposition of Private Foster[169]
[" 56.]Letters from Captain Randolph, of New Jersey[170]
[" 57.]Extract from the Journal of Captain Morris[172]
[" 58.]British Prisoners Taken on Long Island[174]
[" 59.]A Return of the Prisoners Taken in the Campaign[175]
[" 60.]List of American Officers Taken Prisoners at the Battle of Long Island[176]
[" 61.]List of American Non-Commissioned Officers and Soldiers Taken Prisoners,
Killed, or Missing, at the Battle of Long Island
[180]
[Biographical Sketches][187]
[The Maps][193]
[The Portraits][195]
[Index][197]

LIST OF MAPS.

1. [New York, Brooklyn, and Environs in 1776.]

2. [Plan of the Battle of Long Island and the Brooklyn Defences.]

3. [President Stiles' Sketch of the Brooklyn Works.]

4. [Ewing's Draught of the Long Island Engagement.]

5. [Map of New York City and of Manhattan Island, with the American Defences.]