Note 820 — Chapter IV · (continued 2)

The life and Public services of Arthur St. Clair, with his correspondence and other papers arranged and annotated by Wm. Henry Smith. The correspondence begins in 1771. H. P. Johnston thinks Smith too sweeping and injudicial in his editing (Mag. of Amer. Hist., Aug., 1882). St. Clair took command at Ticonderoga June 12th. Smith includes in his book the proceedings of the councils of war (pp. 404, 420), and the various letters of St. Clair, respecting his retreat, to Bowdoin (also in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., vi. 356), Hancock, Jay, Washington, and others (pp. 396, 414, 423, 425, 426, 429, 433). Cf. Dawson's Battles. St. Clair's letter, July 7th, at Otter Creek, to the president of the Convention of Vermont, is in N. H. State Papers, viii. 618.