CHAPTER XXVIII.

Question of Command between Gates and Schuyler—Condition of the Army at Crown Point—Discontent and Departure of Sullivan—Fortifications at Ticonderoga—The Question of Command adjusted—Secret Discontents—Sectional Jealousies in the Army—Southern Troops—Smallwood’s Macaroni Battalion—Connecticut Light-Horse 260

Southern Cruise of Sir Henry Clinton—Fortifications at Charleston—Arrival there of General Lee—Battle at Sullivan’s Island—Washington Announces the result to the Army 272