[1101] Dufey, Résumé, i. 312-321; François Soulés, Histoire des Troublés de l'Amérique Anglaise, Paris, 1787, iii. 211-219. See also Botta (Otis's trans.), iii. 66-75; and Giuseppe Colucci, I casi della Guerra per l'Independenza narrati dall' ambasciatore della Republica di Canova presso la corte D'Inghilterra nella sua corrispondenza officiale inedita, Genoa, 1879, ii. 536.
[1102] Eelking, Hülfstruppen, ii. 57, and Lowell, Hessians, 242. Major-General John Watts De Peyster has an article on the siege in the New York Mail for Sept. 24, 1879. Something may also be found in Lossing, Field-Book; Stone, Our French Allies, etc. A description of Ebenezer, a town which constantly figures in this campaign, is in C. C. Jones, Dead Towns of Georgia, p. 183; also in Ga. Hist. Soc. Coll., vol. iv.; while the experience of the Salzburg settlers of that region is well set forth in P. A. Strobel's The Salzburghers and their Descendants, Balt., 1855, pp. 201-211.
[1103] Cf. A Journal, in Hough, p. 46; Another Journal, in Ibid. 79; and the other original sources as above.
[1104] As to the sufferings of the sailors and the lack of energy displayed by the officers of the fleet, see Extrait du Journal (158 page edition), p. 138 et seq. This part is translated in Jones, Savannah, p. 61.
[1105] The verses of the royalist wits are in Moore's Songs and Ballads, 269, 274.
[1106] The former had come into notice during the gallant defence of Fort Moultrie. Later he rendered important service, and was wounded in the lungs while carrying off the colors from the deadly Spring Hill redoubt at Savannah. There is no doubt of the truth of this intrepid bravery of Sergeant Jasper. Cf. McCall, Georgia; Horry, Life of Marion, p. 66; Stevens, Georgia, ii. 217. Cf. especially C. C. Jones, Serjeant William Jasper, An Address delivered before the Ga. Hist. Soc. in 1876.
The "impetuous Polander" was mortally wounded while making some kind of a charge in the rear of the enemy's line on the right. As to Pulaski, see, beside the general accounts and C. C. Jones's Address in Georgia Hist. Coll., iii., the Life of Count Pulaski by Sparks, in his American Biography, xiv. 365-446; pp. 431-443 relate to the Southern campaign. Cf. also an article in American Historical Record, i. 397-399; and note in Hough, Savannah, p. 175, abridged from Stevens, Georgia, ii. According to Paul Bentalou, who claimed to have been with him when he died, his body became so offensive immediately after his death that it was thrown overboard from the vessel which was bearing the wounded to Charleston. Nevertheless, at the laying of the corner-stone of a monument to his memory in Savannah, a metallic box supposed to contain his remains was placed within the plinth alongside the corner-stone. With regard to his place of burial, see Bentalou, Pulaski Vindicated from a charge in Johnson's Greene (Balt., 1824), p. 29; C. C. Jones, Sepulture of Major-General Nathanael Greene and of Brigadier-General Count Casimir Pulaski, Augusta, Ga., 1885; and a letter from James Lynch, of South Carolina, to the editor of the New York Herald, Jan. 7, 1854,—reprinted in the Hist. Mag., x. 285; Johnson, Traditions, note to p. 245, where another Pole, who claimed to have been aide-de-camp to Pulaski, and to have supported him in the death struggles, says that he was buried under a large tree, about fifty miles from Savannah.
The Maryland Historical Society has the banner presented to Pulaski by the Moravian Sisters of Bethlehem in 1778. It was saved when Pulaski fell at Savannah in 1779, and came into the possession of the society in 1844 (Penna. Archives, 2d ser., xi.). There is a portrait of Pulaski, engraved by H. B. Hall in Jones's Georgia, ii. 402. (Cf. Lossing, ii. 735.) The history of efforts to establish Pulaski's service and recompense by the United States Government is traced in Senate Exec. Doc. 120, 49th Cong., second session (1887).—Ed.
[1107] Printed in various places,—as, for example, in Hough, Charleston, p. 173; Remembrancer, x. 140. Other letters from Lincoln to Washington are in Corresp. Rev., ii. 344, 385, 401, 403, 418, and 433, etc. Some of them, especially one of April 9th, are of considerable value. Among Lincoln's MSS. is a long letter from Lincoln to Washington, dated Hingham, July 17, 1780, defending his conduct. It is of value, but, if sent, has never, to my knowledge, been printed. The reasons for abandoning the defence of the bar are given in a letter from Captain Whipple and other commanders and pilots to Lincoln, dated Charleston, Feb. 27, 1780, in Ramsay, Rev. S. C., ii. 397. See Lincoln MS. defence as above. There are also several papers relating to this portion of the siege in the third volume of the Commodore Tucker Papers in the Harvard College library. But see Moultrie (Memoirs, ii. 50) for his strictures on the giving up the position near Fort Moultrie. It is probable that, had the British fleet been kept out of the Cooper River, the surrender would have been long deferred, perhaps even until the hot season and the arrival of the French at Newport had compelled its abandonment.
[1108] There are several other descriptions from American sources. The most valuable, so far as it goes, is the report of Du Portail to Washington (Corresp. Rev., ii. 451). It relates, however, to a limited period. The same must be said of a few letters from the younger Laurens and from Woodford, the commander of seven hundred Virginians who arrived on the 21st of April. Laurens's first letter, bearing date of Feb. 25th, is in Moore's Materials for History, p. 173. The second, written on March 14th, is in Corresp. Rev., ii. 413. The third, which bears date of April 9th, is in Ibid. 435. Woodford's letter of April 8th is in Ibid. 430. Cf. also Ibid. 401, 420, and Moore's Materials, 175.