Report of the Commission Created in Accordance with a Joint Resolution of Congress, Approved March 3, 1881; Providing for the Erection of a Monument at Yorktown, Va., Commemorative of the Surrender of Lord Cornwallis (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...the mortars;" whose energy and activity, in providing heavy canuon for this siege, led Washington to say of him, in the report to Congress which secured his promotion to a MajorGeneralship, that "the resources of his genins supplied the deficit of means." He, also, was afterwards Secretary of War of the United States, succeeding Lincoln in 1785, and serving in theCabinet of Washington until his resignation in 1794. And here, under Knox, as a Lieutenant-Colonel of Artillery, was the brave and devoted Ebenezer Stevens, like Knox, a Boston boy, a Sou of Liberty, one of the Tea-party; whose services, here and elsewhere, were of the highest value, in connection with Colonel Lamb, of New York, and Lieutenant-ColonelCarrington, of Virginia, and Major Bauman: who lived to superintend the fortifications on Governor's Island, in New York Harbor, in 1800; and having fixed his residence in that city, to command the Artillery of the State in the War of 1812. James Thacher, of old Plymouth, was here as a Surgeon, under Washington's favorite Surgeon, James Craik, of Virginia, the author of an interesting "Military Journal" of the Revolution, and among whose papers 1 have seen a rough sketeh of the Surrender. Colonel Joseph Vose was here, sometime at the head of the first Massachusetts Continental Infantry, but now in La Fayette's corps. And David Cobb was here, in the enviable capacity of an Aid to Washington; who kept a little Diary on the field, from which I have already quoted; who lived to hold both military and judicial office in Massachusetts, and who will always be associated with that brave saying of his, during Shays' Rebellion, " I will sit as a Judge or die as a General." Colonel Timothy Pickering was here also, who from his f...