Notes, 1865, n.d. Contains 48 manuscript pages of notes on the Battle of Queenston Heights

Abstract

Notes, 1865, n.d. Contains 48 manuscript pages of notes on the Battle of Queenston Heights. Some of the notes are written by Wool and some in a secretarial hand. Most of the sheets are enclosed in a folded sheet of paper with a note on the front in Wool’s handwriting that reads “the enclosed papers refer to the Battle of Queenston, captured of its heights & the defeat of Major General Brock led by the 13th U.S. infantry; and the false statement made by Lieut. General Scott in his autobiography, where he says that [Mc?] and other officers carried the heights and defeated Gen. Brock, when neither was present, or participated in the slightest degree in either [ascending?] the heights or in the defeat of Brock & his troops”. The inside of the sheet at the end of the papers contains a note by Wool that reads “Papers Official including letter from Major General Van Rensellaer & Lieut. Col. & Captain Wool of the affair of Queenston on the 13th October 1812”. Also contains four pages in unknown handwriting of what appears to be a partial draft of a profile on Wool that may have been for the United States Democratic Review “Political Portraits with Pen and Pencil”, p. 435, November 1851.