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You are welcome... It's a "been there, done that" sort of case, I have learned over the years the hard way too. :-)

About hitting the starter, yes, you may have wiggled the other connections in the process. Check all of them! Sorry about the battery...the way the batteries are charged in series (and used), make sure they are both the same size/capacity when getting a replacement.

Following up on the above post, the military is very precise in specifying how the connections are supposed to be, including the correct plating of the hardware to minimize galvanic action, or corrosion. The battery clamps are made a little different for the positive and the negative terminals...

Whenever there is enough heat to melt a terminal, suspect a high ohm connection, that's how the heat is produced; high resistance, high voltage drop, high amperage = lots of heat. It reads like your jumper cable between the batteries had a bad crimp. The volt meter (Batt/Gen gauge) needs...