Note 787 — Chapter IV · (continued 2)
Reading edition
Original sources: Evidence of the Court of Inquiry in 5 Force, ii, 1251; Washington to Congress in Sparks, iv. 94; Greene to Cooke, Sept. 17th, in 5 Force, ii. 370 (cf. Green's Greene, i. 216); Cæsar Rodney to Read, Sept. 18th, in Life of George Read, 191; Smallwood, Oct. 12th, in 5 Force, ii. 1013; letter of Nicholas Fish, Sept. 19th, in Hist. Mag., xiii. 33; letter, Sept. 24th, in Evelyns in America; Major Baurmeister's account, Sept. 24th, in Mag. of Amer. Hist., Jan., 1877, p. 33 (Johnston, p. 95),—a MS. owned by Bancroft; Rufus Putnam's Memoirs (Johnston, p. 136); Heath's Memoirs, p. 60; Jas. S. Martin's Narrative (Johnston, Doc., p. 81). Cf. note on the authorities in Bancroft, orig. ed., ix. p. 122; also Gordon, ii. 327. Later accounts: Johnston, pp. 92, 232; De Lancey in Jones, App. p. 604; Irving's Washington, ii. 333.