Upon the landmarks and topography of this series of movements, see papers in the Boston Monthly (i. 505) for a visit to Bemis's Heights; a paper by W. L. Stone in Mag. of Amer. Hist. (Nov., 1885, p. 510) on the remains of the works as now seen; and an examination of the localities in G. W. Schuyler's Colonial New York (ii. 128). Cf. Lossing's Field-Book and his Book of the Hudson.
[864] Cf. also Trumbull MSS. (vol. vi. and vii.); the Sparks MSS. (lii. vol. iii, p. 223); the lives of Putnam; and Upham's Life of Glover.
[865] A letter of Gen. Parsons to Gov. Trumbull, on the capture of Fort Montgomery, is in Hildreth's Pioneer Settlers of Ohio (p. 534). The personal narrative of Thomas Richards is in United Service (xii. 274).
[866] Cf. also Clinton's letter in Rockingham and his Contemporaries (ii. 334), and his annotations on the account in Stedman (ch. 18) in Jones's N. Y. during the Rev. (i. 704). A journal of a British officer is printed in Scull's Evelyns in America (p. 345).
The journal of Capt. Scott, who was sent by Burgoyne to open communication with Clinton, is in Fonblanque's Burgoyne (p. 287).
The later accounts are in Irving's Washington (iii. ch. 21); Lossing's Schuyler (ii. ch. 20), and his Field-Book (ii. 165); Leake's John Lamb (p. 179), where is controverted the opinion expressed in Hamilton's Life of Alex. Hamilton (i. 321), that the defence of the forts was feeble; Carrington's Battles; and Sargent's André (p. 102).
[867] There was also a map of the river in the Gent. Mag., 1778.
[868] Letters of Greene and others, May 17, 1777, respecting the obstructions in the North River at Fort Montgomery, are in the Sparks MSS. (lii. vol. iii.).
[869] Boston Monthly Mag., July, 1826; Loring's Hundred Boston Orators, 174; Parton's Franklin, ii. 283. The brief letter sent by Gates to the Mass. Council is in the Mass. Archives, and is printed in Hale's Franklin in France, p. 160. The letter of the Mass. government to Franklin (Oct. 24th) covered a copy of Gates's letter (Hale, p. 155).
[870] The effect in England is seen in the Debates in Parliament; Curwen's Journal (p. 175); P. O. Hutchinson's Diary of Thomas Hutchinson (vol. ii.); Donne's Corresp. of Geo. III. and Lord North (ii. 93, 111); excerpts in Moore's Diary, i. 525, Macknight's Burke (ii. 202); Russell's Mem. and Corresp. of Fox (i. 161); Fitzmaurice's Shelburne (iii. 12); Bancroft's United States (ix. 478); Mahon's England (vi. 206, and App. p. xxxix.); Fonblanque's Burgoyne (ch. 8); Madison's Writings (i. 31). Walpole (Last Journals, ii. 170) tells us how the king received the news of Burgoyne's disaster.