THE
COMMAND
IN THE
BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL,
WITH
A REPLY TO "REMARKS ON FROTHINGHAM'S HISTORY
OF THE BATTLE, BY S. SWETT."
BY RICHARD FROTHINGHAM, Jr.,
AUTHOR OF A HISTORY OF THE SIEGE OF BOSTON.
BOSTON:
CHARLES C. LITTLE AND JAMES BROWN.
1850.
PRINTED AT THE OFFICE OF THE BOSTON POST, NO. 21 WATER STREET.
THE
COMMAND
IN THE
BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL.
The preparation of a History of Charlestown—the occupation of leisure hours—led to large collections relative to the military events which occurred in the neighborhood of Boston at the commencement of the war of the revolution; but as a full account of them did not appropriately belong to so local a publication, and as no work had been issued containing a narrative, in much detail, of these interesting events, it was thought best to prepare the volume now before the public entitled History of the Siege of Boston. The old subject of the battle of Bunker Hill was so directly in my way that it could not be avoided; and as an apology for adding another to the narratives of this event, I determined to construct it, as much as possible, from contemporary materials.