[1169] His letter to the President of Congress is in Remembrancer, xii. 197; Gibbes, Doc. Hist. (1781-82), p. 70; etc. Cf. also a letter to Washington in Sparks, Cor. Rev., iii. 310.
[1170] Cf. Remembrancer, xv. 6, for a copy. Cf. also Remembrancer, xii. 153; Pol. Mag., ii. 483; and Gibbes, p. 89, for extracts. A report to Clinton of June 6 is printed, with this, except in Gibbes.
[1171] Substantially the same account is in White's Hist. Coll. of Georgia, p. 607; Stevens's Georgia, ii. 247; and Jones's Georgia, ii. 455.
[1172] See, in addition to the above, Remembrancer, xii. 289. There are no plans of any of these sieges, and the statements as to numbers are too vague and contradictory to be made the basis of any accurate estimates.
[1173] There is an account of Cruger in Jones, New York during the Rev. War, ii. 376.
[1174] See also Greene, to Marion in Gibbes, Doc. Hist. (1781-82), p. 100; to Washington in Sparks, Cor. Rev., iii. 341; and to Jefferson in Greene's Greene, iii. 555. O. H. Williams sent an interesting description of the siege to his brother (Tiffany's Williams, p. 21). Greene's letters to Sumter and Marion and Sumter's letters to Marion are in Greene's Greene (fragmentary) and Gibbes, 93 et seq.
[1175] Several letters from Balfour to Germain of this period are in Remembrancer, xii. 172 and 173; Polit. Mag. ii.; and London Gazette, Aug. 7-11, 1781. Rawdon gives the loss of the garrison as less than forty, but this is very possibly too low. Cruger had 550 men when the siege began. The British account in Mackenzie rates Greene at 5,000, which estimate is absurd. It was not under 1,000 nor over 1,500, including militia. Williams reported the loss at 57 killed, 70 wounded, and 20 missing. Rawdon had "near 2,000" men. Of these 7 were placed hors de combat on the way up, "50" died of the heat, and Lee captured 250 of the cavalry on the homeward march,—a total loss of 307.
[1176] Something can also be found in Gordon, American War, iv. 92; Ramsay, Rev. in S. C.; Stedman, Amer. War, ii. 364; Johnson's Greene, ii. 127 (he apologizes for Sumter's behavior; but see Greene's Greene, iii. 319); Greene's Greene, iii. 219; Jones, New York during the Revolutionary War, ii. 376; Lossing, Field-Book, ii. 690; Marshall's Washington, iv. 524; etc. Simms has written several romances relating to this time.
Johnson has given a plan of the works in his Greene, ii. 140; a reduced fac-simile is in Greene's Greene, iii. 299. The works were planned by Lieutenant Haldane, of Cornwallis's family (cf. Stedman, ii. 364), but Lieutenant Barrette was engineer in charge at the time of the siege. Cf. Hatton in Mackenzie, 163. Also map in Lossing's Field-Book, ii. 691.
[1177] Dated near Ferguson's Swamp, Sept. 11, 1781, in Caldwell's Greene, p. 441; Remembrancer, xiii. 175; Pol. Mag., ii. 677; Gibbes, Doc. Hist. (1781-82), p. 141; Tarleton, p. 513, etc. Cf. also Marion to P. Horry, in Gibbes, 160.