Note 486 — Chapter II
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Burr was near by. Parton's Burr, i. 75. See the denial of the statement that Burr endeavored to carry off the body of Montgomery, in Hist. Mag., ii. 264. Cf. Lossing in Ibid., xiv. 272; and General Cullum's note in Mag. of Amer. Hist., April, 1884, p. 294. Trumbull, in his picture of the death of Montgomery (Hinton's United States, i. 233, and other places), represents Burr supporting the falling hero. Catal. of Paintings by Colonel Trumbull (N. Y., 1838), p. 14. The attack was premature. N. H. State Papers, viii. 351.