[475] For the Mugford affair, see Sparks's Corresp. of the Rev., i. 204; Moore's Diary, i. 244.
[476] Secret Journals of Congress, i. 19.
[477] John Adams understood these sectional difficulties. Works, ix. 367. Cf., on the New England distrust of Schuyler, Sparks's Washington, iii. 535. Bancroft says of Schuyler that he was "choleric and querulous, and was ill suited to control undisciplined levies of turbulent freemen." Schuyler, who was honest and uncompromisingly zealous, is defended in Lossing's Life of Schuyler, where (vol. ii. 27) Bancroft's assertion (original ed., viii. 423) that Schuyler "refused to go into Canada" is controverted on the ground that Congress declined to accept Schuyler's resignation, when ill-health prevented his leading the army. Bancroft, in his final revision (iv. 377), says of Schuyler that he owned himself unable to manage the men of Connecticut, and proposed to resign. The differences between Schuyler and Wooster have led to much championing of the two by writers of New York and Connecticut. Wooster, a man now of sixty-five years, austere in habit, could hardly be expected to commend himself to one of Schuyler's temperament. Cf. Hollister's Connecticut.
[478] Hinman's Conn. in the Rev., p. 571; Guy Johnson's despatch to Dartmouth, Oct. 12, 1775, in Canadian Antiquarian, iv. 25, 135.
[479] Moore's Diary of the Rev., i. 153, 158; Sparks's Corresp. of the Rev., i. 471; Allen's own Narrative; Lossing in Harper's Monthly, xvii. 721. Cf. Warner's letter of Sept. 27, in the Sparks MSS., xlix. vol. 2.
[480] On November 3, the colors taken at Chamblée were hung up in Mrs. Hancock's chamber at Philadelphia.
[481] Silas Deane seems to have comprehended something of the intractable quality of Wooster (Conn. Hist. Soc. Coll., ii. 288.)
[482] Parton's Burr, i. 68.
[483] Niles's Principles and Acts (1876), p. 461; Sparks's Washington, iii. 92; Henry's Journal (1877), p. 5.
[484] This rear division was under Colonel Enos.