[1449] Vol. ii. ch. xviii.
[1450] Orig. ed., iv. 144; final revision, ii. 457.
[1451] Conduct of a noble commander in America impartially reviewed, Lond., 1758, pp. 45. (Carter-Brown, iii. 1,176; Sabin, iv. 15,197.)
[1452] In June, 1758, Simon Stevens, who commanded a reconnoitring party from Fort William Henry, was captured by the enemy, and an account of his experiences, till he escaped from Quebec, was printed in Boston in 1760.
[1453] Cf. letter in Penna. Archives, iii. 472. Later historians have followed Dwight (Travels, iii. 383) in supposing the earthworks still remaining to represent the work of Montcalm in preparation for the fight. Hough (ed. of Rogers’ Journal, p. 118) so accounts them. Parkman says, however, that these mounds are relics of the strengthened works that Montcalm threw up later, his protection at the fight being of logs mainly.
[1454] Travels, iii. 384.
[1455] Items from this diary are quoted in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., vol. xvii. (1879), p. 243. The original is in the cabinet of that society.
[1456] Parkman refers (ii. 432) to letters of Colonel Woolsey and others in the Bouquet and Haldimand Papers in the British Museum. A letter of Sir William Grant is given in Maclachlan’s Highlands (1875), ii. 340. Knox (i. 148) gives a letter from an officer. Dwight refers to a letter in the New Amer. Magazine. There are among the letters of Chas. Lee to his sister (N. Y. Hist. Coll., 1871) one from Schenectady, June 18, and one from Albany, Sept. 16, 1758. He describes his being wounded at Ticonderoga, and is very severe on the “Booby-in-chief.” Other letters are in the Boston Gazette, 1758. The Boston Evening Post, July 24, 1758, has “the latest advices from Lake George, published by authority,” in which, speaking of Montcalm’s lines, it is said that “the ease with which they might be forced proved a mistake; for it was not possible with the utmost exaction of bravery to carry them.” It gives a table of losses as then reported; and adds extracts from a letter dated Saratoga, July 12, “which are not authenticated.” There is in the Israel Williams MSS., in the Mass. Hist. Soc. library, a letter from Col William Williams, dated July 11, 1758, at Lake George, as at “a sorrowful situation.” The same papers contain also a letter from Oliver Partridge, Lake George, July 12, 1758; a detailed account of the campaign, by Col. Israel Williams; a letter of his nephew, Col. William Williams, Aug. 21, 1758; a rough draft of a narrative of the campaign by Colonel Israel Williams, dated at Hatfield, Aug. 7, 1758; a letter from Timothy Woodbridge, Lake George, July 24, 1758; and others from the camp, Lake George, Sept. 26 and 28, by William Williams.
Several diaries have been printed: Chaplain Shute’s is in the Essex Inst. Hist. Coll., xii. 132. In the same, vol. xviii. pp. 81, 177 (April, July, 1881), is another by Caleb Rea, published separately as Journal, written during the expedition against Ticonderoga in 1758. Edited by F. M. Ray, Salem, Mass., 1881.
In the Historical Mag., Aug., 1871 (p. 113), is the journal of a provincial officer, beginning at Falmouth (Me.), May 21, 1758, and ending on his return to the same place, Nov. 15.