The earliest general account is by Moultrie himself in his _Memoirs of the American Revolution_. Cf. Gordon's _Amer. Rev._; and John Drayton's _Memoirs of the American Revolution_ [through 1776] _as relating to the State of South Carolina_ (Charleston, 1821, two vols.). Of the later general historians, reference may be made to Bancroft (orig. ed.), vol. viii. ch. 66, and final revision, iv. ch. xxv., a full account; to Dawson, i. ch. 10, to Carrington, ch. 27, 28; to Gay, iii. 467; Irving's _Washington_, ii. ch. 29; Lossing's _Field-Book_, ii. p. 754. Something can be gleaned from Garden's _Anecdotes of the Revolution_; _Memoirs of Elkanah Watson_; the life of Rutledge in Flanders's _Chief Justices_; and from such occasional productions as William Crafts's address (1825), included in his _Miscellanies_; Porcher's address in the _South Carolina Hist. Coll._, vol. i.; C. C. Jones, Jr.'s address on Sergeant Jasper in 1876, and the _Centennial Memorial_ of that year and the paper in _Harper's Monthly_, xxi. 70, by T. D. English. On the British side we have Parker's despatch (July 9th) in Dawson, p. 140; a letter of Clinton (July 8th) in the _Sparks MSS._, no. lviii.; Clinton's _Observations on Stedman's History_; the reports in the _Gent. Mag. and Annual Register_; the early historical estimate in Adolphus's _England_, ii. 346. Jones, _New York in the Revolutionary War_, i. 98, gives the Tory view. There is a contemporary letter by a British officer given in Lady Cavendish's _Admiral Gambier_, copied in _Hist. Mag._, v. 68. Hutchinson (_Life and Diary_, ii. 92) records the effects of the fight in England.[660] CHAPTER III. THE SENTIMENT OF INDEPENDENCE, ITS GROWTH AND CONSUMMATION. BY GEORGE E. ELLIS, D. D., LL. D., _President Mass. Hist. Society._