The Life of John Marshall, Volume 1: Frontiersman, soldier, lawmaker, 1755-1788. Albert J. Beveridge

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Marshall, i, 156. The fact that Marshall places himself in this detachment, which was a part of Maxwell's light infantry, together with his presence at Iron Hill, fixes his position in the battle of the Brandywine and in the movements that immediately followed. It is reasonably certain that he was under Maxwell until just before the battle of Germantown. Of this skirmish Washington's optimistic and excited Secretary wrote on the spot, that Maxwell's men killed thirty men and one captain "left dead on the spot." (Harrison to the President of Congress, Sept. 11, 1777; Writings: Ford, vi, footnote to 68.)

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Thomas Marshall was promoted to be lieutenant-colonel Aug. 13, 1776; and colonel Feb. 21, 1777. (Heitman, 285.)

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Trevelyan, iv, 230.

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Marshall, i, footnote to 158.

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Ib. Colonel Thomas Marshall's cool-headed and heroic conduct at this battle, which brought out in high lights his fine record as an officer, caused the Virginia House of Delegates to elect him colonel of the State Regiment of Artillery raised by that Commonwealth three months later. The vote is significant; for, although there were three candidates, each a man of merit, and although Thomas Marshall himself was not an aspirant for the place, and, indeed, was at Valley Forge when the election occurred, twice as many votes were cast for him as for all the other candidates put together. Four men were balloted for, Thomas Marshall receiving seventy-five votes and the other three candidates all together but thirty-six votes. (Journal, H.B. (Nov. 5, 1777), 27.)

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Marshall, i, 156; and Trevelyan, iv, 230-31. Washington reported that Wayne and Maxwell's men retreated only "after a severe conflict." (Washington to President of Congress, Sept. 11, 1777; Writings: Ford, vi, 69.)

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Trevelyan, iv, 232.

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Marshall, i, 157-58.

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Ib.; and see Irving, iii, 200-09.

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Marshall, i, 158-59.

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Four years afterward Chastellux found that "most of the trees bear the mark of bullets or cannon shot." (Chastellux, 118.)

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Washington to President of Congress, Sept. 11, 1777; Writings: Ford, vi, 70.

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Marshall (1st ed.), iii, 141, and see Washington to President of Congress, Sept. 23, 1777; Writings: Ford, vi, 81.

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Marshall, i, 160.

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Marshall, i, 160. When their enlistments expired, the soldiers took the Government's muskets and bayonets home with them. Thus thousands of muskets and bayonets continually disappeared. (See Kapp, 117.)

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Marshall, i, 160-61.

326

Ib.

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Washington to President of Congress, Sept. 23, 1777; Writings: Ford, vi, 81-82.

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This is an inference, but a fair one. Maxwell was under Wayne; and Marshall was one of Maxwell's light infantry of picked men. (Supra.)

329

Marshall, i, 161. "The British accounts represent the American loss to have been much larger. It probably amounted to at least three hundred men." (Ib., footnote.)

330

Ib., and see Pa. Mag. Hist. and Biog., i, 305.

331

Marshall repeatedly expresses this thought in his entire account of the war.

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Washington to President of Congress, Sept. 23, 1777; Writings: Ford, vi, 80.

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Marshall, i, 162.

334

Ib.

335

Washington to President of Congress, Sept. 23, 1777; Writings: Ford, vi, 82.

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Works: Adams, ii, 437.

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Ib.

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Pa. Mag. Hist. and Biog., xvi, 197 et seq.

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American officer's description of the battle. (Ib., xi, 330.)

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Marshall, i, 168.

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Ib., 168-69.

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From an American officer's description, in Pa. Mag. Hist. and Biog., xi, 330.

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Ib., 331-32.

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Ib.

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"The rebels carried off a large number of their wounded as we could see by the blood on the roads, on which we followed them so far [nine miles]." (British officer's account of battle; Pa. Mag. Hist. and Biog., xvi, 197 et seq.)

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Marshall, i, 170-71.

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Ib., 181.

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Ib., 181-82.

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Marshall (1st ed.), iii, 287. Marshall omits this sentence in his second edition. But his revised account is severe enough.

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The Reverend Jacob Duché, to Washington, Oct. 8, 1777; Cor. Rev.: Sparks, i, 448-58.

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Washington to President of Congress, Dec. 10, 1777; Writings: Ford, vi, 238-39.

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Clark's Diary, Proc., N.J. Hist. Soc. (1st Series), vii, 102-03. "It seems that the enemy had waited all this time before our lines to decoy us from the heights we possessed." (Ib.)

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Marshall, i, 184.

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Marshall, i, 184.

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It appears that, throughout the Revolution, Pennsylvania's metropolis was noted for its luxury. An American soldier wrote in 1779: "Philada. may answer very well for a man with his pockets well lined, whose pursuit is idleness and dissipation. But to us who are not in the first predicament, and who are not upon the latter errand, it is intolerable… A morning visit, a dinner at 5 o'clock – Tea at 8 or 9 – supper and up all night is the round die in diem… We have advanced as far in luxury in the third year of our Indepeny. as the old musty Republics of Greece and Rome did in twice as many hundreds." (Tilghman to McHenry, Jan. 25, 1799; Steiner, 25.)

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Trevelyan, iv, 279.

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Ib., 280.

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Ib.

359

The influence of Margaret Shippen in causing Arnold's treason is now questioned by some. (See Avery, vi, 243-49.)

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Trevelyan, iv, 281-82.

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Ib., 278-80.

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Ib., 268-69; also Marshall, i, 215. The German countrymen, however, were loyal to the patriot cause. The Moravians at Bethlehem, though their religion forbade them from bearing arms, in another СКАЧАТЬ