Of Christian Febiger, the adjutant of the expedition, a Dane, but resident in Massachusetts, there is an account and portrait in Mag. of Amer. Hist., March, 1881.
An orderly-book of the expedition, Nov. 8, 1775, to Feb. 26, 1776, is in the Pension bureau of the War Department at Washington. There is in the Sparks MSS. (lii. vol. ii. p. 25) a list of officers and volunteers on the expedition and at Quebec, furnished to Sparks at New York, Feb., 1831, by Col. Samuel Ward, of whom a letter describing his experiences on the march is also preserved (Sparks MSS., no. xxv.). There are in the Mass. Archives: Revolutionary Rolls, vol. xxviii., lists of officers of the reinforcements for Ticonderoga and Canada, and in a separate volume a list of soldiers under Colonel Arnold, and of the killed, wounded, and prisoners at Quebec, Dec. 31, 1775. (Cf. list in Ware's Journal.) The N. Y. Continental line (four regiments and one artillery company) was organized, under a vote of the N. Y. provincial congress, June 28, 1775, and served on this campaign. Capt. John Lamb's artillery company left New York with seventy enlisted men, and (March 30, 1776) were reduced to thirty-one rank and file. The term of service of the N. Y. line expired in April, 1776; but a large part reënlisted (Asa Bird Gardiner in Mag. of Amer. Hist., Dec., 1881). The service of New Hampshire is shown in the N. H. Rev. Rolls, i. pp. 209, 311, 339, etc. Cf. Quebec Lit. and Hist. Soc. Trans., 1871-73, 1876-77; Potter's Amer. Monthly, Dec., 1875.
[645] Wooster's share in the campaign was not a happy one. "His defect was his age", says C. F. Adams. "Few of the brave officers in the French war sustained their reputation in the revolutionary struggle" (Life and Works of John Adams, iii. 44). Lossing's Schuyler and Hollister's Connecticut have somewhat opposing sympathies respecting Wooster's character. Cf. much in 4 Force's Archives, iv., v., vi., and 5 Ibid., i. The opinion upon Wooster of the Commissioners to Congress is shown in their letter of May 27th (Force's Archives, vi. 589). There is a letter of Wooster from Montreal, Feb. 11, 1776, addressed to Roger Sherman, in Letters and Papers, 1761-1776 (MSS. in Mass. Hist. Soc., p. 167). In this he speaks of his disagreements with Schuyler, and says that his persuasion had prevented Montgomery from resigning.
[646] Sparks's Corresp., etc., vol. i. 116, 154, and App. (Dec. 31, 1775; Jan. [1776] 2, 11, 12, 24; Feb. 1, 27; April 20, 30; May 8, 15; June, etc.). Arnold's letter of Dec. 31 in the N. H. Prov. Papers, vii. 719. Cf. Lossing on Arnold in Harper's Monthly, xxiii. 721.
[647] American.—Report, Jan. 24th, to Congress, in Secret Journal, i. 38.
Letters from Point-aux-Trembles in App. of Henry's Journal (ed. of 1877).
Donald Campbell's despatch to Wooster, Dec. 31, 1775, in Dawson, i. 116; and in N. H. Prov. Papers, vii. 718.
Letters of Wooster to Schuyler and Warner (Jan. 5th and 6th), and Schuyler to Washington (Jan. 13th), in N. H. Prov. Papers, vii. 720-22. Cf. Sparks MSS., lviii. 12.
Lieut. Eben Elmer's diary of the Canada expedition in N. Jersey Hist. Soc. Proc., ii. and iii.
General Irvine's diary, beginning May, 1775, in Hist. Mag., April, 1862.