[555] Diaries.—Lt.-Col. Storrs, June 1-28 (Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xiv. 86; Frothingham's Battlefield, 34) Benj. Crufts, June 15, etc. (Essex Inst. Hist. Coll., April, 1861); Ezekiel Price, May 23, etc. (Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., Nov., 1863, p. 185); Dr. John Warren (Frothingham's Siege: Life of Dr. John Warren); Thomas Boynton (Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xv. 254).
Orderly-Books.—Capt. Chester's, June 5-17 (Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xiv. 87; Frothingham's Battlefield, 37); Henshaw's, April-Sept. (Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., Oct., 1876); Fenno's (Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., Oct., 1876).
[556] References in Poole's Index, p. 1328.
[557] Charles Coffin, at Saco in 1831 and at Portland in 1835, published a History of the Battle of Bunker Hill, which was compiled from the accounts by Heath, Wilkinson, Lee, and Dearborn. Of less importance are Dr. Belknap's note-book and letters (Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xiv. 92, 96, etc.); Adventures of Israel R. Potter (Providence, 1824); Oliver Morsman's Hist. of Breed's, commonly called Bunker's Hill Battle (Sacketts Harbor, 1830); Col. E. Bancroft's narrative (J. B. Hill's Bicentennial of Old Dunstable, Nashua, 1878); Columbian Centinel (Dec., 1824; Jan., 1825); Needham Maynard (Boston newspaper, 1843); Timothy Dwight (Travels in New England, New Haven, 1821, vol. i. 468-476), who knew some of the actors, and who says that a member of the council of war held the day before told him that the representations of an old hunter, that it was better to fire a small number of shots well aimed than many carelessly, induced the council to order fifteen rounds to a man instead of sixty.
A large number of depositions of supposed survivors were made in 1818 and 1825, but they are held to be of no value by the critical student. There is a transcript in three folio volumes, made in William Sullivan's office, of some of the latter date, preserved in the cabinet of the Mass. Hist. Society. What purported to be some of the originals were offered for sale in New York in 1877, but were bid in. C. L. Woodward, of New York, advertised in May, 1883, nearly two hundred papers, which were called Col. Swett's Collection of Affidavits, priced at $200 (Mem. Hist. Boston, iii. 104).
[558] For instance, Rev. Wm. Gordon's Hist. of the Independence of the United States (London, 1788), vol. ii. 39, who followed closely the Committee of Safety's account; D. Ramsay's Amer. Revolution (1789), i. 201, who is criticised by Charles Thomson (N. Y. Hist. Coll., 1878, p. 216) for not allowing that military necessity justified Gage in firing Charlestown; Charles Smith's American War from 1775 to 1783 (N. Y., p. 97, also Monthly Repository, N. Y., 1796-97); Holmes' Amer. Annals (1805), ii. 231; Mercy Warren's American War (Boston, 1805), i. 217; Hubley's Amer. Revolution (1805); Lee's Mem. of the War in the Southern Department (Philad., 1812); Marshall's Washington, ii. 237. (See, for others, Hunnewell, p. 23.)
Colonel Scammans's court-martial is reported in the N. E. Chronicle, Feb. 29, 1776; Essex Gazette, Feb. 29, 1776; Dawson, p. 400.
[559] Charles Hudson availed himself of this in a pleasantry, Doubts concerning the battle of Bunker Hill (Boston, 1857), in which he paralleled Whately's famous argument for the non-existence of Napoleon. Cf. Christian Examiner, vol. xl.
[560] Hist. of the United States, orig. ed., vol. vii. ch. 38-40; and final revision, iv. ch. 14.
[561] He ceases, however, to speak of "the age and infirmities" of Ward, as Carrington indeed does, calling him "advanced in years and feeble in body", and as many of the writers have, misled perhaps by the somewhat elderly appearance of the usual portrait of him. He was in fact but forty-eight years old!