Current As Of 10 December 1996

Historical Resources Branch

US ARMY CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY

The Continental Army

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Engineers and Geographers


I. Manuscripts.

New-York Historical Society. (New York City).

Erskine-DeWitt Map Collection.

Western Reserve Historical Society. (Cleveland).

Cleveland, Moses. Papers.

II. Published Sources.

[Abbatt, William]. "The First of the Submarines: Bushnell's 'American Turtle,' 1776." Magazine of History, 18 (May-June 1914), pp, 242-245.

Abbot, Henry L., compiler. The Beginnings of Modern Submarine Warfare under Captain-Lieutenant David Bushnell, Sappers and Miners, Army of the Revolution. 1882. Reprint Edition Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1966.

Baldwin, Jeduthan. The Revolutionary Journal of Col. Jeduthan Baldwin 1775-1778. Edited by Thomas William Baldwin. Bangor: De Burians, 1906.

Bedini, Silvio. Thinkers and Tinkers: Early American Men of Science. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975.

Brown, Horace. "Capt. Bernard Romans and His Map of Vermont." Vermont Historical Society Proceedings, New Ser., 11 (June 1943), pp. 95-98.

[Bushnell, David]. "Bushnell's General Principles and Construction of a Submarine Vessel." Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 4 (1799), pp. 303-312.

Butterfield, L[yman] H. "Franklin, Rush, and the Chevalier Kermorvan: An Episode of '76." American Philosophical Society Library Bulletin for 1946, pp. 33-44.

Buzzaird, Raleigh B. "America's First Chief Engineer." Military Engineer, 39 (December 1947), pp. 505-510.

Caemmerer, H. Paul. The Life of Pierre Charles L'Enfant. Washington: National Republic Publishing Co., 1950.

Cappon, Lester Jesse. "Geographers and Map-makers, British and American, from about 1750 to 1789." American Antiquarian Society Proceedings, 81 (October 1971), pp. 243-271.

Cummings, Hubertis M. "The Villefranche Map for the Defense of the Delaware." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 84 (October 1960), pp. 424-434.

[DeBrahm, John Gerar William]. De Brahm's Report of the General Survey in the Southern District of North America. Edited by Louis De Vorsey, Jr. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1971.

Du Coudray, Philippe Tronson [sic]. "Observations on the Forts Intended for the Defense of the Two Passages of the River Delaware, July, 1777." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 24 (1900), pp. 343-347.

Duportail, Louis. "Letter to Joseph Reed, 10 September 1779." Pennsylvania Archives, 1st Ser., 7, pp. 690-691.

Ellis, Robert R. "Richard Gridley, First Chief Engineer of the Army." Military Engineer, 55 (1963), pp. 157-160, 265-268, 344-347.

Gray, William. "Letter of Captain William Gray, of the Fourth Pennsylvania Regiment, With a Map of the Sullivan Expedition." Edited by William Henry Egle. Pennsylvania ARchives, 2d Ser., 15, pp. 289-293.

Guthorn, Peter J. American Maps and Mapmakers of the Revolution. Monmouth Beach, N.J.: Philip Freneau Press, 1966.

-----. "Revolutionary War Mapmakers." Prologue, 9 (Fall 1977), pp. 171-177.

Haiman, Mieceslaus. Kosciuszko in the American Revolution. New York: Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, 1943.

Hall, Edward Hagaman. "Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Rochefontaine." In Twenty-Sixth Annual Report of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society (Albany: J. B. Lyon, 1922), pp. 245-269.

Harley, J. B.; Barbara Bartz Petchenik; and Lawrence W. Toner. Mapping the American Revolutionary War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.

Harte, Charles Rufus. The River Obstructions of the Revolutionary War. N.P.: N.p., 1946. [Originally published in Annual Report of the Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers, 62 (1946), pp. 135-186].

Haskett, James N. "Military Engineers at Yorktown, 1781." Military Engineer, 68 (May-June 1976), pp. 175-179.

Heavey, W. W. "The Corps in the Days of the Revolution." Military Engineer, 31 (November-December 1939), pp. 410-415.

Heusser, Albert H. George Washington's Map Maker: A Biography of Robert Erskine. 1928. Reprinted and edited by Hubert Schmidt. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1966.

Hindle, Brooke. The Pursuit of Science in Revolutionary America, 1735-1789. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1956.

Hume, Edgar Erskine. "The Society of Cincinnati and the Corps of Engineers." Military Engineer, 25 (November-December 1933), pp. 468-473.

Huntoon, D. T. V. "Major-General Richard Gridley." Magazine of History, 7 (May, June 1908), pp. 278-283, 336-342.

Kite, Elizabeth S. Brigadier-General Louis Lebègue Duportail, Commondant of Engineers in the Continental Army, 1777-1783. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press for the Institut Français de Washington, 1933.

-----. "General Duportail at Valley Forge." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 56 (1932), pp. 341-351.

McLaughlin, Patrick. "The American Revolution in Maps." American Archivist, 37 (January 1974), pp. 43-50.

Martin, Joseph Plumb. Private Yankee Doodle Being a Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier. [1830]. Edited by George F. Scheer. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1962.

Mowat, Charles L. "That 'Odd Being,' De Brahm." Florida Historical Quarterly, 20 (April 1942), pp. 323-345.

Ollivier, François. "The Engineer Corps of the Revolution." Military Engineer, 15 (September-October 1923), pp. 411-416. [Translated and reprinted from the Revue du Génie Militaire.]

Palmer, Dave R. "Fortress West Point: 19th Century Concept in an 18th Century War." Military Engineer, 68 (May-June 1976), pp. 171-174.

Pula, James S. "The American Will of Thaddeus Kosciuszko." Polish American Studies, 34 (Spring 1977), pp. 16-25.

Putnam, Rufus. The Memoirs of Rufus Putnam and Certain Official Papers and Correspondence. Compiled by Rowena Buell. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1903.

Ruttenber, E. M. Obstructions to the Navigation of Hudson's River. Albany: J. Munsell, 1860.

Scott, Austin. "Blazing the Way to Final Victory--1781." Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, New Ser., 6 (January 1921), pp. 1-10.

Senf, John Christian. "Col. Senf's Account of the Santee Canal." Edited by Mabel L. Webber. South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, 28 (January, April 1927), pp. 8-21, 112-131.

Smith, D. E. Huger. "An Account of the Tattnall and Fenwick Families in South Carolina." South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, 14 (January 1913), pp. 4-19.

Wagner, Frederick. Submarine Fighter of the American Revolution: The Story of David Bushnell. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1963.

Walker, Paul K., editor. Engineers of Independence: A Documentary History of the Army Engineers in the American Revolution, 1775-1783. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1981.

Ware, John D. "The Bernard Romans-John Ellis Letters, 1772-1774." Florida Historical Quarterly, 52 (July 1973), pp. 51-61.

Watts, Arthur P. "A Newly Discovered Letter of Brigadier-General Duportail." Pennsylvania History, 1 (April 1934), pp. 103-106.

Williams, George W. "Two Maps of Charleston in the Revolution." South Carolina Historical Magazine, 76 (April 1975), pp. 49-50.