IV. Encampment of the detachment from Little Meadows.
V. Line of march with the whole baggage.
VI. Plan of the field of battle, 9 July, 1755.
See also the plans of the battle given in Bancroft’s United States (orig. ed.), iv. 189; Sparks’ Washington, ii. 90, the same plate being used by Sargent, p. 354, and in Guizot’s Washington. In the Faden Collection, in the Library of Congress, there are several MS. plans. (Cf. E. E. Hale’s Catalogue of the Faden Maps.)
Beside the map of Braddock’s advance across the country, given in the series, already mentioned, there is another in Neville B. Craig’s Olden Time (ii. 539), with explanations by T. C. Atkinson, who surveyed it in 1847, which is copied by Sargent (p. 198), who also describes the route. Cf. Egle’s Pennsylvania, p. 84; and the American Hist. Record, Nov., 1874. A map made by Middleton and corrected by Lowdermilk is given in the latter’s History of Cumberland, p. 141. A letter of Sparks on the subject is in De Hass’s West. Virginia, p. 125. The condition of Braddock’s route in 1787 is described by Samuel Vaughan, of London, in a MS. journal owned by Mr. Charles Deane.
The Catal. of Paintings in the Penna. Hist. Soc., no. 65, shows a view of Braddock’s Field, and an engraving is in Gay’s Pop. Hist. U. S., iii. 254, and another in Sargent, as a frontispiece. Judge Yeates describes a visit to the field in 1776, in Hazard’s Register, vi. 104, and in Penna. Archives, 2d ser., ii. 740; and Sargent (p. 275) tells the story of the discovery of the skeletons of the Halkets in 1758. Cf. Parkman, ii. 160; Galt’s Life of Benj. West (1820), i. 64. Some views illustrating the campaign are in Harper’s Magazine, xiv. 592, etc.
[1135] “Poor Shirley was shot through the head,” wrote Major Orme. Cf. Akins’ Pub. Doc. of Nova Scotia, pp. 415, 417, where is a list of officers. Various of young Shirley’s letters are in the Penna. Archives, ii.
[1136] Braddock’s remains are said to have been discovered about 1823 by workmen engaged in constructing the National Road, at a spot pointed out by an old man named Fossit, Fausett, or Faucit, who had been in the provincial ranks in 1755. He claimed to have seen Braddock buried, and to have fired the bullet which killed him. The story is not credited by Sargent, who gives (p. 244) a long examination of the testimony. (Cf. also Hist. Mag., xi. p. 141.) Lowdermilk (p. 187) says that it was locally believed; so does De Hass in his West. Virginia, p. 128. Remains of a body with bits of military trappings were found, however, on digging. A story of Braddock’s sash is told by De Hass, in his W. Virginia, p. 129. In July, 1841, a large quantity of shot and shell, buried by the retreating army, was unearthed near by. Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., iii. 231, etc. A picture of his grave was painted in 1854 by Weber, and is now in the gallery of the Penna. Hist. Soc. (Cf. its Catal. of Paintings, no. 66.) It is engraved in Sargent, p. 280. Cf. Day, Hist. Coll. Penna., p. 334. Lowdermilk (pp. 188, 200) gives views of the grave in 1850 and 1877, with some account of its mutations. Cf. Scharf and Westcott’s Philadelphia, ii. p. 1002. A story obtained some currency that Braddock’s remains were finally removed to England. De Hass, p. 112.
[1137] See a subsequent page.
[1138] Inquiry into the Conduct of Maj.-Gen. Shirley.