Note 1209 — Chapter VI · (continued 2)

Lincoln's MS. orderly-book is in possession of Mr. Crosby, of Hingham, Mass. Johnston (Yorktown, p. 91, note) gives an order of Lincoln's as copied from the Lamb MSS. An orderly-book of General Gist belongs to the Maryland Hist. Soc. An Orderly-Book of the Second Battalion of the Penna. Troops before Yorktown is in Egle's Notes and Queries, 145-156. It runs, however, only to Sept. 14th. See also Feltman to Lieutenant Johnston, dated Yorktown, Oct. 10, 1781, in Egle (p. 132). There is a Journal of the Campaign by Lieutenant William Feltman, May, 1781-April, 1782 (Penn. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1853, and Penna. Archives, 2d ser., vol. xi.); and a Journal of the Siege of York in Virginia, by a chaplain of the American Army (Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., iv. 102-108). From a reference in Thacher's Journal, Johnston (Yorktown, App., p. 196) infers that the latter appears to have been the work of Chaplain Evans, of Scammell's corps. A portion of the Military Journal of Major Ebenezer Denny relates to this siege (Penn. Hist. Soc. Mem., vii. 237-249). Another valuable journal is the one kept by Capt. John Davis, of the Pennsylvania line (Westchester Village Record, 1821, and Principles and Acts of the Revolution, 1st ed., p. 465, and 2d ed., p. 293, and entire from May 26, 1781, to June 10, 1782, in Penna. Hist. Mag., v. 290-311; vii. 339). Other journals are Notes of the Siege of Yorktown, by Dayton, in New Jersey Hist. Soc. Proc., ix.-x. 187; Colonel Tilghman's Diary of the Siege of Yorktown in Appendix to Memoir of Tench Tilghman; Journal of the Siege of Yorktown, by Col. Richard Butler, in Hist. Mag., viii. 102; Extract from the Journal of a Chaplain in the American Army—Sept. 12-Oct. 22, 1781—in Potter's American Monthly, v. 744; Journal of Colonel Jonathan Trumbull in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc. (April, 1876), vol. xiv. 331; Thacher's Military Journal, pp. 334-351; "Siege of York and Gloucester" in American Museum, June, 1787,—reprinted in Mag. of Amer. Hist., vii. 222-224; an anonymous journal in Martin's Gazetteer of Virginia, pp. 293-295; and a Diary of the March from the Hudson to Yorktown and return, by Lieutenant Saunderson, of the Connecticut line, in Johnston's Yorktown, p. 170,—the original being in that author's possession. The diary of David Cobb, Oct.-Nov., 1781, is in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., Oct., 1881, p. 67. A journal of Henry Dearborn, ending Nov. 24, 1781, is owned by Dr. T. A. Emmet, of N. Y., having been bought in the J. W. Thornton sale, no. 284. See also letters from Governor Nelson to various persons in the "Nelson Papers" (no. 1 of the New Series of the Publications of the Virginia Historical Society). There are other letters in the Va. Hist. Reg., ii. 34; v. 157; Drake's Knox, 69, etc.