Beside the Stanley letter of Burgoyne, we find also, written on June 25, two others: the first from Boston to a gentleman in Scotland (Force, iv.; Dawson, 364); the second from an officer in Boston (Force, iv.; Dawson, 365).
On the 26th, Gage wrote to the Earl of Dunmore in Virginia (Force, iv.; Dawson, 366).
On July 5th, there is a letter from an officer in Boston (Detail and Conduct of the American War, 3d ed., 1780, p. 12; Dawson, p. 367; Frothingham's Siege, 373).
A letter of Captain Harris, describing his receiving a wound and being taken from the field, is given without date in Lushington's Lord Harris (p. 54; also Dawson, 366; Drake, 37). The Bunker Hill letter is lacking in G. D. Scull's Capt. Evelyn of the King's Own (Oxford, 1879), but there is new matter in his Evelyns in America (pp. 166-171, 278).
[573] The book passed to a second edition the same year. It was privately printed in New York in 1868, and is included by S. A. Drake in his Bunker Hill, published in 1875 (Brinley, no. 1,786; Stevens, Americana, 1885, £3 3s).
[574] Particular reference may be made to the more extended accounts in Moorsom's Fifty-Second Regiment (with a plate of uniforms); Lamb's Journal of Occurrences with the Welsh Fusiliers; E. Duncan's Royal Artillery (London, 1872, i. 302); R. G. A. Levinge's Fifty-third Regiment Monmouthshire light infantry (Lond., 1868, pp. 61-64); The Case of Edward Drewe, late Major Thirty-fifth Regiment (Exeter, 1782,—see Dawson, 368).
[575] In 1793, when Stedman used the plate in his American War, he only altered the title, as Frothingham says. In 1797 it was again reëngraved, but also with changes in the title, as A plan of the action at Breed's Hill, etc., and, as then reduced by D. Martin, it constitutes the earliest American engraved plan. It appeared in C. Smith's American War from 1775 to 1783 (New York, 1797), and Hunnewell (p. 18) gives a heliotype of it. Nathaniel Dearborn, in his Boston Notions, engraved it, on a very small scale, in 1848; and the next year (1849) Frothingham reproduced it in its original state in his Siege, and pointed out that the correspondence of Montresor's survey to a recent survey of Felton and Parker inspired one with confidence in its accuracy (Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xiv.). It is the basis of the best plans of the action, and is reproduced also in Irving's Washington, illus. ed., ii. 467.
[576] Dearborn was at the time a captain in Stark's regiment, at the rail fence. Winthrop was on the field unattached. Dr. Dexter looked on from the Malden shore of the Mystick. Kettell was a common soldier, at first in the redoubt; then at the rail fence. Miller was at the rail fence.
[577] N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1858. There is a portrait of Brooks, by Stuart, owned by Mr. Francis Brooks, of Boston. It has been engraved by A. B. Durand. Cf. Usher's ed. of Brooks' Medford (Boston, 1886.)
[578] The figures in the town denote the numbers of the wards. The letters signify,—A, Town Hall; B, Old meeting; C, the Chapel; D, Governor's house; E, Christ Church; F, Trinity Church; G, Faneuil Hall; H, Old North meeting; I, Old South meeting; L, Work-house; M, Prison. A map like it appeared in 1782 in a work of similar title to that published in Boston, but printed at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, being a second edition of one printed at London in 1779. (Cf. Henry Stevens's Hist. Coll., i. no. 435.) The whole design seems, however, to be taken from a map which appeared in London, Sept. 2, 1775, whose main title is Seat of War in New England, by an American Volunteer, with the marches of the several Corps sent by the Colonies towards Boston, with the Attack on Bunker Hill; and which has in the margin a Plan of Boston Harbor, and is also the prototype of the one in the Impartial History (Boston, 1781). Modern reproductions are also given in Wheildon's New History, F. S. Drake's Tea Leaves, and in various other of the Centennial memorials of 1875.