Chapter I: Front Matter

VOL. II NO. 5
THE
MAGAZINE OF HISTORY
WITH
NOTES AND QUERIES
NOVEMBER, 1905

WILLIAM ABBATT
281 FOURTH AVENUE, NEW YORK

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THE MAGAZINE OF HISTORY

WITH NOTES AND QUERIES

VOL. II NOVEMBER, 1905. NO. 5

CONTENTS

MONUMENT WHERE WAS CLINTON’S COOPERSTOWN
DAM _Frontispiece_
PAGE
SULLIVAN’S GREAT MARCH INTO THE INDIAN REV. W. E. GRIFFIS,
COUNTRY (_First Paper_) L.H.D. 295
THE BRITISH NAVY IN THE REVOLUTION
(_Second Paper_) REGINALD PELHAM BOLTON 311
THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS (_Seventh Paper_) REV. LIVINGSTON ROWE
SCHUYLER 315
REMINISCENCES OF ROBERT FULTON J. B. CALHOUN 326
DOMINIE SOLOMON FROELIGH AND HIS GREAT
SCHISM REV. J. R. DURYEE, D.D. 330
A DAY IN THE GREAT DISMAL SWAMP LOUISE E. CATLIN 339
MISCELLANEA OF AMERICAN HISTORY EUGENE F. MCPIKE 346
EDITORIAL 352
MINOR TOPICS: The Fate of the Pigeons 353
INDIAN LEGENDS: _III._ THE LONE BUFFALO (The Late) CHARLES
LANMAN 356
ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS
Agreement Between Edmund Munro and
John Sellon 359
Letters (three) of Lieut. Edmund Munro
to His Wife 360
Original MS. of Abraham Lincoln’s
Speech, 1859 362
Letter of Major James McHenry to Gen.
Greene 362
Letter of Washington to the Citizens
of Savannah 364
Letter of Martha Washington to Mrs. F.
Washington 364

Entered as a second-class matter, March 1, 1905, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.

_Copyright, 1905, by William Abbatt_

MONUMENT MARKING SITE OF GEN. CLINTON’S DAM

COOPERSTOWN, N. Y.
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THE MAGAZINE OF HISTORY

WITH NOTES AND QUERIES

VOL. II NOVEMBER, 1905 NO. 5

SULLIVAN’S GREAT MARCH INTO THE INDIAN COUNTRY

_PREFACE_

Two great flank attacks on the British forces were made by the Americans during the war of the Revolution. One, in winter, against Quebec, in 1775–76, failed nobly; the other, in summer, into the Iroquois country, against Tories and Indians, in 1779, was superbly successful. Yet while Montgomery and Arnold have had their meed of fame, but scant and tardy justice has been done to Sullivan.

Twelve years’ residence in the lake country of the Empire State, amid the scenes of the march that destroyed savagery and opened the forests to civilization, has made its story a most fascinating study. After repeated examination, on the ground, of the camps, battlefields, scenes of bridge-building and road-making, of topographical and engineering difficulties, of marchings and of rest, and even of feasting, along nearly the whole of the routes of the main army and right wing, I have learned to appreciate more the magnitude of Sullivan’s task and the completeness of his successful enterprise. One can more readily understand why Congress and Washington first ordered the campaign, and then realized the importance and value of its victories and happy issue.

Critical analysis and comparison of local legends, study of the mythology—that grows around picturesque scenery and striking names as naturally as moss on a damp stone—and, most of all, of the original journals and documents of the men of 1779, have but added to the pleasure of the narrator. A knowledge of the march of Sullivan’s Continentals in 1779 makes the landscape between Easton and the Genesee Valley glow, kindling at once memory, imagination and patriotism.

May art glorify history and the tablet, boulder, and memorial line the pathway of the Revolutionary patriots with beacon lights of grateful remembrance.

W. E. G.