In the spring of 1777 St. Clair was designated for the command at Ticonderoga, the advanced post against the invasion of Burgoyne (_St. Clair Papers_). The light-headed Sullivan thought it unfair that he was not selected for the post (_Correspondence of the Rev._, i. 352). The British onset was appalling. James Lovell, in March, wrote, "It is plain that we must look forward for another summer's bloody work" (_Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc._, April, 1860, p. 9). Congress was emphasizing the stories of British brutality (_Journals of Congress_, ii. 97). On May 22d Schuyler had been confirmed in his command of the Northern department, and Gates had gone to Philadelphia to lay his grievances before Congress (Lossing's _Schuyler_, ii.; Irving's _Washington_, iii.). Burgoyne (Fonblanque, App. E) was talking to his Indians in June, and two days later he made his famous proclamation to frighten or allure the country people. Fonblanque (p. 23) is not unmindful of its unworthy bombast, and Lecky (vi. 64) says it was "greatly and justly blamed."[816] There will be occasion later to enumerate the maps illustrating the successive stages and conflicts of the campaign; but it may be well at this point to append in a note the principal maps of the entire movement of the British army, which cover also the field of its actions on both flanks.[817] The most important source respecting the siege and evacuation of Ticonderoga is the _Proceedings of a General Court Martial, held at Whiteplains, N. Y., for the trial of Maj.-Gen. St. Clair, Aug. 25, 1778_ (Philad., 1778).[818] It was reprinted in the _Collections_ of the N. Y. Hist. Soc. in 1880. It includes various letters of Schuyler and St. Clair in June (pp. 14, 101, 121, etc.), the doings of the council of war, July 5th, which decided upon a retreat (p. 33), and the letters of St. Clair at Ticonderoga, and one to Hancock, July 14th, from Fort Edward (p. 69, etc.). Three days later, July 17th, St. Clair sent an account from Fort Edward to Washington, which, with the letter of Schuyler, likewise to Washington, is in Sparks's _Corresp. of the Rev._, i. 393, 400.[819] Much of this material is also included in the published _St. Clair Papers_.[820] Sparks had earlier added copies of some of the St. Clair papers to his Collection of Manuscripts.[821] On the English side, Burgoyne's letters are in Fonblanque's _Burgoyne_ (p. 248), _Gent. Mag._, Aug., 1777, and Dawson's _Battles_. Anburey's _Travels_ (letter xxx.) throws some light. For the effect of the evacuation on the country, see _Journals of Congress_, iv. 719; Wells's _Sam. Adams_, ii. 485, 488; _Diplomatic Correspondence of the Amer. Rev._, i. 315. The apprehension felt in the adjacent country is shown in letters of Ira Allen and others in the _N. H. State Papers_, viii. 632, 633, 643, 644, 648, 651.