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1876 REVOLUTIONARY WAR U. S. MILITARY WASHINGTON AMERICAN REVOLUTION ARMY NAVY 1876 REVOLUTIONARY WAR U. S. MILITARY WASHINGTON AMERICAN REVOLUTION ARMY NAVY
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DescriptionTHE BOYS OF \'76.
A HISTORY OF
THE BATTLES OF THE REVOLUTION.
BY CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN,
ILLUSTRATED WITH OVER 300 ILLUSTRATIONS ENGRAVINGS
NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
FRANKLIN SQUARE.
1976 FIRST EDITION
398 PAGES
DECORATED CLOTH HARDCOVER WITH EMBOSSED GILT DESIGN
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PREFACE.
THE story of the American Revolution what our fathers accomplished,
their hardships, heroism, and self-denial, in securing the independ
ence of the country and in advancing liberty and happiness throughout
the world will have an interest and charm of its own so long as the de-
sire for freedom exists in the hearts of men.
In this volume an attempt has been made to give a concise, plain, and
authentic narrative of the principal battles of the Revolution as witnessed
by those who took part in them.
Although the name of Elijah Favor may not be found on the Rye-
field muster-roll,\" yet we have more than his counterpart in the person of
Alexander Scammell, who fought at Bunker Hill, became Washington s
trusted adjutant-general, and who gave his life to his country at York-
town ; while Dodifer Hanscom, Esek Earl, and Nicholas Dolof are repre
sentative boys of the time.
One hundred years have passed since \" the Boys of 76 \" shouldered
their muskets and fought for their liberties. The sufferings, hardships,
hatreds, and barbarities of that struggle, all have passed away, and Ameri
cans and Britons are brothers ; but the story of the struggle the patriot
ism, self-denial, and devotion will never be forgotten. That a perusal of
these pages may deepen the love of the boys of the present generation for
their country, and quicken their love for liberty and the rights of man, is
the earnest hope of
C.C.C.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
THE ALARM ..... 17
CHAPTER II.
BUNKER HILL ..... 42
CHAPTER III.
BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL ..... 47
CHAPTER IV.
DRIVING THE BRITISH OUT OF BOSTON ..... 61
CHAPTER V.
EXPEDITION TO QUEBEC ..... 71
CHAPTER VI.
FORT SULLIVAN .... 82
CHAPTER VII.
BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND.... 91
CHAPTER VIII.
EVACUATION OF NEW YORK ..... 108
CHAPTER IX.
BATTLE OF WHITE PLAINS ......113
CHAPTER X.
LAKE CHAMPLAIN ..... 123
CHAPTER XI
BATTLE OF TRENTON .....129
CHAPTER XII.
PRINCETON ...... 139
CHAPTER XIII.
TlCONDEROGA AND HUBBARDTON ..... 152
CHAPTER XIV.
FORT SCHUYLER .....166
CHAPTER XV.
BENNINGTON ..... 180
CHAPTER XVI.
BRANDYWINE ..... 195
CHAPTER XVII.
STILLWATER ....... 204
CHAPTER XVIII.
GERMANTOWN ..... 215
CHAPTER XIX.
THE HIGHLANDS OF THE HUDSON ..... 223
CHAPTER XX.
SARATOGA ..... 231
CHAPTER XXI.
OPERATIONS ON THE DELAWARE ..... 245
CHAPTER XXII.
VALLEY FORGE AND PHILADELPHIA ..... 254
CHAPTER XXIII.
STONY POINT .... 262
CHAPTER XXIV.
MONMOUTH .... 269
CHAPTER XXV.
AFFAIRS IN RHODE ISLAND ..... 280
CHAPTER XXVI.
AFFAIRS IN SOUTH CAROLINA ...... 289
CHAPTER XXVII.
WEST POINT ..... 303
CHAPTER XXVIII.
KING\'S MOUNTAIN AND THE COWPENS..... 334
CHAPTER XXIX.
GENERAL GREENE S RETREAT ..... 345
CHAPTER XXX.
GUILFORD COURT-HOUSE ..... 353
CHAPTER XXXI.
EUTAW ..... 364
CHAPTER XXXII.
FORT GRISWOLD ..... 372
CHAPTER XXXIII.
YORKTOWN. .... 380
CHAPTER XXXIV.
CONCLUSION ..... 396
ILLUSTRATIONS.
The Alarm Frontispiece
Samuel Adams .....18
John Hancock ..... 19
Lord North .....20
Carted through the Streets .....24
A Tory ..... 25
Paul Revere. [1735-1818] .... 27
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere ..... 28
Ebenezer Dorr ..... 29
\" The Regulars are coming !\" ..... 30
The Lexington Massacre ..... 31
The British Troops on Concord Common.
[Fac-simile of an Old Engraving] ..... 33
\" Let us stand our Ground \" ..... 35
Major Pitcairn stirring his Brandy ....36
Mr. Hunt\'s House ..... 37
Burning the Cannon Carnages .....37
Map illustrating the Concord Fight .....38
\" The Shot that is heard around the World \" ..... 39
Halt of Troops near Elisha Jones\'s House. ...... 40
Merriam s Corner, on the Lexington Road ....... 40
View of Bunker Hill ..... 45
General Israel Putnam ...... 46
General Joseph Warren ...... 46
Plan of the Battle of Bunker Hill ..... 48
Bunker Hill ..... 50
Burning of Charlestown ..... 53
Bunker Hill after the Battle ..... 55
Putnam putting out the Fire at Fort Ed
ward ...... 56
The French Commander saving Putnam. ...... 58
General Putnam starting for Boston ....... 59
Putnam\'s Sign ...... 60
General Washington ......61
Washington taking Command of the Army. ......62
Washington\'s Head-quarters, Cambridge ..... 63
Boston, with its Environs, 1776 .... 64
\"From the Right Bank of the Potomac,
General !\" ....66
General Henry Knox ..... 67
Boston from Dorchester, where the Intrench-
ments were erected. [1773] ..... 68
British Fortifications on the Neck ..... 69
The Old South ..... 70
Getting the Boats around the Falls .....72
Arnold s Route to Quebec ..... 75
View of Point Levi from Quebec..... 77
Wolfe\'s Ravine. . ..... 78
Richard Montgomery ..... 78
General Guy Carleton 79
The Cliff...... 79
Where Arnold attacked...... 80
Lord Germain ...... 82
Colonel Moultrie ...... 83
Fort Sullivan ..... 83
Sir Henry Clinton ..... 84
Charleston in 1776 ..... 85
Sir Peter Parker ..... 86
Sullivan\'s Island Position of British Fleet ...... 86
The Way the Guns were mounted ...... 87
The Flag ...... 88
Sergeant Jasper ..... 89
King\'s Bridge ..... 92
New York, with the Entrance of the North
and East Rivers...... 93
Washington\'s Head-quarters ..... 94
The British Fleet in the Lower Bay. ...... 96
The Place where the British landed ..... 97
Map Battle of Long Island ..... 99
Lord Stirling .....101
New York, 1776 ..... 101
John Callender saved by a British Officer.... 103
Lord Stirling s Last Struggle around the
Old Cortelyou House ..... 104
Browser\'s Mill ..... 105
The Marbleheaders at Home ..... 105
Colonel Glover ..... 106
Colonel Glover superintending the Embar
kation ...... 107
Jacobus Kip\'s House .... 108
Beekman\'s Mansion ..... 110
Morris\'s House .....111
Battle-field at Harlem ..... 112
Howe\'s Head-quarters ..... 113
Washington s Head-quarters at White Plains ...... 114
Alexander Hamilton .... 114
Place where the British crossed the Bronx ..... 115
Chatterton Hill ..... 116
Operations after the Evacuation of New
York, 1776 ....... 117
The Palisades .... 119
Landing of the British Forces in the Jerseys,
November 20th, 1776 ...... 121
Engagement between Valcour Island and the
Western Shore of Lake Champlain ..... 124
Action of the 13th of October ..... 125
Scene of Arnold\'s Naval Battle ..... 126
The Crew escaping ..... 127
Independence Hall. ... 129
General Charles Lee ..... 130
Lee\'s House .....131
General Sullivan ..... 131
Trenton ....... 132
Place where Washington crossed ...... 133
Washington crossing the Delaware ...... 134
Trenton, 1777 ..... 135
Colonel Rail\'s
Head-quarters ...... 136
Robert Morris ..... 140
Bridge at Worth\'s Mill ..... 141
Battle of Princeton ......144
Princeton, 1777 ..... 146
Battle-ground at Princeton ...... 147
\" God bless you !\" ..... 150
General Burgoyne ..... 152
St. Johns, 1776 ..... 153
Isle Aux Noix ..... 154
Crown Point ..... 154
A Tender-hearted Hyena ..... 155
Edmund Burke ..... 155
Burgoyne making a Speech to the Indians. ..... 156
Country around Ticonderoga ..... 157
Ticonderoga ...... 158
Chimney Point ..... 158
Ticonderoga and the Lake, from Mount De
fiance ..... 160
General St. Clair ..... 161
The Place where the Boats were burned....... 162
Battle of Hubbardton ..... 164
Battle-field at Hubbardton ..... 165
Albany One Hundred Years ago ..... 166
General Philip Schuyler .... 167
Bundle of Sticks ..... 168
Johnson\'s House ...... 168
Butler\'s House ..... 169
The Church ..... 169
The Mohawk at Little Falls ..... 170
Stone Meeting-house at German Flats ..... 170
Colonel Gansevoort ..... 171
Colonel Marinus Willett ..... 171
St. Leger\'s Attack upon Fort Schuyler. ..... 172
Battle-field at Oriskany ..... 174
General Herkimer\'s House .... 176
Place where Jane M\'Crea was murdered. . ... 181
John Langdon\'s House .... 182
General John Stark ..... 183
Dragging the Cannon ...... 184
New Hampshire Boys ..... 185
Van Schaick\'s Mill ..... 186
Bennington Battle-ground ..... 188
Bennington Heights ...... 190
Battle of Bennington ..... 192
Washington\'s Head-quarters at Brandy wine ..... 196
Chad\'s House .....196
Lafayette ..... 197
Lafayette\'s Head-quarters at Brandywine. ...... 197
Place where Howe and Clinton crossed the
Brandywine..... 199
Birmingham Meeting-house ..... 199
Plan of the Battle of Brandywine, Septem
ber 11th, 1777 . ..... 200
The Place where Knyphausen crossed the
Brandywine ..... 202
Howe s Head - quarters after the Battle of
Brandywine ...... 202
Old Philadelphia ..... 203
Kosciuszko ..... 205
Gates\'s Head-quarters at Saratoga ..... 206
Neilson\'s House ..... 206
Colonel Morgan .....208
Colonel Morgan\'s House ..... 209
Flag of Morgan\'s Rifle Corps ..... 209
Battle-field at Stillwater ...... 212
The Tunker Meeting-house ...... 216
The Chew House, Germantown ..... 216
The Chew Coach ....... 217
Reception in Chew House ....... 218
Battle of Germantown ..... 220
View from Fort Clinton (looking North). . .... 223
General George Clinton ..... 224
bloody Pond ..... 227
Burning the Ships ..... 229
The Prison-ship Jersey ..... 230
Battle of the 7th of October ..... 234
Never again will hear the Footsteps of her
Boy ..... 236
House in which General Fraser died ..... 237
Place where General Fraser was buried . . .... 239
General Schuyler\'s House ....... 239
General Schuyler\'s Mill ....... 240
The House occupied by Baroness Reidesel........ 240
The Cellar ..... 241
Burgoyne\'s Camp on the 13th of October. ........ 241
Surrender of Burgoyne ..... 242
Place where the British laid down their
Arms ....... 243
Operations on the Delaware ..... 246
The Fort at Red Bank ..... 246
Whitall\'s House at Red Bank ..... 247
View from Red Bank ..... 248
The Explosion of the British Ship ..... 249
Fort Mifflin ..... 250
Continental Money ..... 254
General Howe\'s Quarters at High Street,
Philadelphia ...... 255
Whitemarsh ..... 255
Lydia Darrah\'s House ..... 256
Washington\'s Head-quarters, Valley Forge. ......258
Baron Steuben ...... 258
One of the Ladies ....... 259
Captain Cathcart ..... 260
Stony Point ..... 262
General Anthony Wayne ....... 263
\" The Fort is our own !\" ..... 266
Stony Point and Verplanck\'s Point ..... 267
A Baggage-wagon ..... 270
The Country between New York and Phila
delphia ....... 271
The Meeting-house at Freehold ....... 272
Plan of the Battle at Monmouth ....... 276
The. Battle-field at Monmouth ....... 278
Colonel Barton ..... 281
The House in which Prescott was captured 282
The Alden Tavern. . . ... 283
Admiral D\'Estaing ..... 284
Map of Rhode Island, 1778 ....... 285
British Encampment ....... 287
Butts\'s Hill (looking South) ....... 287
View looking North from Butts\'s Hill ....... 288
General Lincoln ..... 289
Governor Rutledge ..... 290
Plan of the Siege of Charleston, in South
Carolina ....... 291
Colonel Tarleton ....... 292
The Butchery of Buford\'s Men ....... 293
Andrew and the British Officer ....... 294
House in which Andrew Jackson was born ....... 295
Baron De Kalb ...... 295
Colonel Sumter ....... 296
Rugeley\'s Bridge ....... 296
Marion on his Way to join Gates ....... 297
Sander\'s Creek .......298
Plan of the Battle fought near Camden,
August 16th, 1780 ..... 299
Marion in Pursuit of the British ..... 301
Map of Hudson River at West Point ...... 303
Part of the Chain .....304
The Beverly Robinson House ..... 305
Benedict Arnold ..... 305
John Andre. [From Portrait by Joshua
Reynolds] .....306
West Point ..... 308
Hall in the Beverly Robinson House Head
quarters of Arnold .....310
Colonel Robinson ..... 311
Smith\'s House ..... 312
Colonel Lamb ..... 313
Honora Sneyd ....... 314
Arnold, Andre, and Smith : the Midnight
Meeting ..... 316
The Hudson between Dobbs\'s Ferry and
West Point ....... 317
View from Smith s House ....... 319
The Breakfast of Hasty-pudding ....... 320
The Old Church at Sleepy Hollow ....... 321
The Old Mill in Sleepy Hollow ..... 322
The Headless Horseman, Sleepy Hollow . . . 323
Capture of Andre ..... 326
Major Tallmadge ...... 327
The Breakfast-room ....... 329
Arnold\'s Escape ..... 331
Fac- simile of a Sketch by Major Andre,
made the Day before he was executed . ... 332
Monument to Andre ..... 333
King\'s Mountain Battle-ground ..... 336
Depeyster raises a White Flag ..... 337
General Nathaniel Greene .... 339
Colonel William Washington ..... 340
Colonel John E. Howard ..... 342
The Cowpens Battle-ground ..... 343
Cowan\'s Ford ..... 347
Where Greene crossed the Yadkin ..... 348
Colonel Otho H. Williams ..... 349
Retreat of the Cavalry ..... 350
Greene crossing the Dan ..... 351
Colonel Lee ..... 353
The Pond .....355
Guilford Court-house ..... 356
Battle of Guilford ..... 357
Battle-field at Guilford ..... 359
General Marion ..... 360
Marion inviting the British Officer to Din
ner ...... 361
Marion and Lee capturing Fort Watson ..... 363
Nelson\'s Ferry ..... 364
Eutaw Springs ..... 365
Colonel Pickens. . . ...367
Rochambeau ..... 380
Thomas M Kean ...... 382
Raleigh Tavern ....... 383
\" Give me Liberty, or give me Death !\". . . . 384
Position of the English and French Fleets
previous to the Action ..... 385
The Landing at Jamestown ..... 386
Governor Nelson\'s House ..... 386
Siege of Yorktown, October, 1781 ..... 387
Lauzun ....... 388
The Place where Adjutant -general Scam-
mell was killed ....... 389
The Fortifications at Yorktown ....... 389
The only Safe Place ..... 390
View at Yorktown ..... 391
Moore\'s House ..... 392
British Flag ..... 392
Surrendering the Colors ..... 393
Washington\'s Head - quarters below New-
burgh ..... 396
Interior of Room Washington\'s Head
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