Bunker Hill

http://boston1775.blogspot.com/2007/07/sheriff-greenleaf-and-col-crafts-read.html. Abigail Adams’s account of the event is in a July 21, 1776, letter to John Adams in Taylor,
Founding Families
.
    Epilogue— Character Alone
    John Quincy Adams’s account of what he did on June 17, 1843, can be found in his
Diary
at the MHS; my thanks to Mike Hill for providing me with a transcript. My account of the festivities surrounding the sixty-eighth anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill is based on articles in the June 19, 1843, issue of the
Daily Atlas
and the June 22, 1843, issue of the
Emancipator and Free American
. My account of John Quincy Adams’s late career in the U.S. House of Representatives is based largely on Paul Nagel’s
John Quincy Adams
, in which he details Quincy’s role in the
Amistad
trial (pp. 379–80) and the House censure trial (pp. 386), in which Nagel quotes the description of Quincy as “the acutest, the astutest, the archest enemy of Southern slavery that ever existed.” Nagel cites Quincy’s claim that “the world will retire from me before I shall retire from the world” (p. 381). Concerning Joseph Warren’s saving Quincy’s forefinger from amputation, Nagel writes, “JQA often considered how brief his diary and letters might have been if his writing hand had been maimed” (p. 8). Abigail Adams’s account of seeing Trumbull’s painting
The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker’s Hill
, in which she refers to “character alone,” is in a March 4, 1786, letter to Elizabeth Smith Shaw in
Adams Family Correspondence
, 7:82. She writes of curbing the “unlimited power” a husband has over a wife and of how “the passion of liberty cannot be equally strong” in a slaveholder in a March 31, 1776, letter to John Adams, in
Adams Family Correspondence
, 1:569–70.
Paul Nagel cites John Quincy Adams’s insistence that “My life must be militant to its close” in
John Quincy Adams
, p. 328. As Nagel writes in his biography, John Quincy Adams died on February 23, 1848, from the effects of a stroke he suffered while rising to speak on the House floor.

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