The correspondence between Clinton and Germain with regard to the planning of this campaign is in the Ninth Report of the Hist. MSS. Commission, App. iii. pp. 95, 98, etc.[1111] In this same appendix are three letters from Arbuthnot to Germain, giving interesting details. His official report was made to Mr. Stevens, secretary of the Admiralty, and was printed with Clinton's report. It is especially valuable with regard to the operations of the fleet. There is a critical account of the siege in Lee's Memoirs, i. 115-142, and the more popular descriptions are unusually good, especially those from German sources.[1112]
Minor Actions, 1780.—It is to be regretted that we have no official account of the disaster at the Waxhaws from the American commander. Tarleton's official report to Cornwallis was originally printed in The London Gazette Extra, July 5, 1780.[1113] The description of the affair in Dawson's Battles, i. 582, is based upon Adj. Bowyer's Particular Account of Colonel Buford's defeat. It differs materially from the account of the British commander.[1114]
Lee says that most of the wounded died of their wounds. This can hardly be true, as Muhlenberg in a letter to Washington (Muhlenberg's Muhlenberg, 368) says that the prisoners taken at the Waxhaws have nearly all returned. There are no plans of the battle, and it has been found impossible to make any estimate of the numbers engaged.[1115]
SIEGE OF CHARLESTON.
Reduced from the plan in Johnson's Traditions and Reminiscences of the Amer. Rev. (Charleston, 1851), p. 247.—Key (American works): A, Wilkins, 16 guns; B, Gibbs, 9 guns; C, Ferguson, 5 guns; D, Sugar House, 6 guns; E, old magazine, 5 guns; F, Cummings, 5 guns; G, northwest point, 4 guns; H, horn-work (citadel) and lines, 66 guns, beside mortars; K, Gadsden's wharf, 7 guns; L, Old Indian, 5 guns; M, Governor's bridge, 3 guns; N, Exchange, 7 guns; O, end of the bay, Littleton's bastion, 4 guns; P, Darrell's, 7 guns; Q, boom, eight vessels, secured by chains and spars.
(British works). 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, redoubts begun April 1st; o, second parallel, finished April 19th; p, third parallel, completed May 6th; q, gun batteries; r, mortar batteries.—Ed.
There is a contemporary English map: Environs of Charleston, S. C. Published June 1, 1780. By Capt. George Sproule, Assistant Engineer on the spot; and a MS. Sketch of the coast from South Edisto to Charlestown, 1 March, 1780,—showing, among other things, "the rebel redoubt" at Stono. The best plan of the siege itself is A Sketch of the operations before Charleston, the Capital of South Carolina. Published 17th of June, 1780, according to Act of Parliament, by I. F. W. Des Barres, Eng. It will be noticed that this was put forth two days after Clinton's despatch of May 14th was published in London. It is a large map, showing the positions in colors. There are two copies in the Harvard College library. It has been reprinted by Mayor Courtenay in the Charleston Year-Book for 1882, P. 360, as "Sir Henry Clinton's Map, 1780", with a description (p. 371). Some one has apparently attempted to remove the inscription referred to above, and only the words "of June, 1780" are legible. In other respects it is identical with the Des Barres map. In his Year-Book (1880, p. 264) Mayor Courtenay has reproduced an interesting Plan of Charlestown. With its Entrenchments and those made by the English, 1780. It relates only to the lines themselves, and was probably the work of an American. There is a good map, with lines in colors, in Faden's Plans of Battles, which is reproduced in Tarleton, p. 32, and Stedman, ii. 184, Ramsay (Rev. S. C., ii. 59) gives an excellent map of a later date, as does Gordon (iii. 358). See also Lossing, Field-Book, ii. 765; Marshall's Washington, atlas no. 10; Moore's Diary, ii. 258; Carrington's Battles, p. 498; Mag. of Amer. Hist., 1883, p. 827; and R. E. Lee's edition of Lee's Memoirs, p. 146. Mention should also be made of a MS. plan in the Faden coll., and of a map, apparently of French origin, the property of Daniel Ravenal, of Charleston (Charleston Year-Book, 1884, p. 295), which Mr. De Saussure regards as a copy of "Brigadier-General Du Portail's engineer's map;" but there seems to be no evidence of this in print. There is a good chart of Charleston harbor in the corner of Des Barres's map, and in the so-called Mouzon Map (1775), while Ramsay (Rev. S. C., ii. 52) has a Sketch of Charleston Harbour, showing the disposition of the British fleet under the command of Vice-Admiral Mariot Arbuthnot in the attack on Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island in 1780.