As for the merchants and shipowners who refused to reveal their loyalties, when I was doing research for the book Divided Loyalties: How the American Revolution Came to New York, my initial idea was to build the story around a small town, and one I had in mind was Salem, Massachusetts. I found to my astonishment that the splendid local historical society had few of the contemporary documents I required—that is, diaries, letters, journals of the period—and I was reminded by Will LaMoy that Salem was a seafaring town, full of businessmen and traders who almost certainly concealed their loyalties as best they could so as not to upset relations with clients or trading partners.
The quotation from the New York woman who was a spectator is in Freeman 5:462–63. Tallmadge’s comment is in the same source, 468.
Both Freeman 5:466–68 and Flexner 2:523–26 provide fine summaries of Washington’s last day with his officers. Much of this comes from the memoir of Benjamin Tallmadge, who was an eyewitness.
The material on Washington’s appearance before the Congress and his return to Mount Vernon is based on Freeman 5:472–87 and Flexner 2:526–27.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Some years ago my friend Stephen Ward Sears, historian of the Civil War, urged me to write about the Yorktown campaign. That it has taken me so long to act on his suggestion does not diminish my gratitude to him.
As with my other books, I have enjoyed welcome offers of hand-holding and assistance from members of my family—particularly from my wife, Barbara Bray Ketchum, who has been unflagging in her support; as well as our daughter, Liza Ketchum, and her husband, John Straus; our son, Thomas Bray Ketchum, and his wife, Pauline; our two oldest grandsons, Derek and Ethan Murrow (the latter investigated some important terrain in the South for me and provided photographs and descriptions); and my sister, Janet Whitehouse, who has a boundless enthusiasm for history.
It is immensely gratifying to have what amounts to a cheering section of people who wish you well, offer to help, or have a friendly interest in the project. Among them are Frederick Buechner, Harvey Carter, John O. Chesley, Jr., Austin Chinn (who informed me that the word bullet was used as early as the fifteenth century), Art Cohn, Rudyard Colter, Jan Crowley, Osborne Day, Castle Freeman, Robert Frothingham, John Hand, Jonathan Harwell, Robert Harwell III, Francis W. Hatch, Hervie Haufler, Gina Johnson, David S. Ketchum, J. Robert Maguire, David McCullough, Lex Nason, Rhoda Nason, Thomas O’Brien, Louise Ransom, Frank Smallwood, Richard Snow, Nicholas Westbrook, Corinna Wildman, Wallace Zellmer, as well as Michael Oltedal and Nancy Oltedal, who helped to unravel what are to me profound computer mysteries.
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