NOTE 1. The hasty organization of the command is marked by one feature
not often regarded, and that is the readiness with which men of various
regiments enlisted in the enterprise. Washington, in his official report
of the casualties, thus specifies the loss:--
Colonel of Regiment. Killed. Wounded. Missing.
Frye, 10 38 4
Little, 7 23 -
Brewer, 12 22 -
Gridley, - 4 -
Stark, 15 45 -
Woodbridge, - 5 -
Scammon, - 2 -
Bridge, 17 25 -
Whitcomb, 5 8 2
Ward, 1 6 -
Gerrishe, 3 5 -
Reed, 3 29 1
Prescott, 43 46 -
Doolittle, 6 9 -
Gardner, - 7 -
Patterson, - 1 1
Nixon, 3 - -
NOTE 2. The record, brief as it is, shows that hot controversies as to
the question of precedence in command are beneath the merits of the
struggle, because all worked just where the swift transitions of the
crisis best commanded presence and influence.
NOTE 3. As both the Morton and Moulton families had property near the
British landing-place, it is immaterial whether hill or point bear the
name of one or the other. Hence the author of this sketch, in a memorial
examination of this battle, elsewhere, deemed it but just to recognize
both, without attempt to harmonize differences upon an immaterial
matter.
NOTE 4. The occupation of Lechmere Point, Cobble Hill, Ploughed Hill,
and Prospect Hill, as shown upon the map of Boston and vicinity,
rendered the British occupation of Bunker Hill a barren victory,
silenced the activity of a thousand men, vindicated the wisdom of the
American occupation, however transient, rescued Boston, and projected
the spirit of the battle of Bunker Hill into all the issues which
culminated at Yorktown, October 19, 1781.
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