Current As Of 10 December 1996

Historical Resources Branch

US ARMY CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY

The Continental Army

BIBLIOGRAPHY

General

I. Manuscripts.

American Philosophical Society. (Philadelphia).

Feinstone, Sol. Collection of American Revolutionary

Manuscripts.

Franklin, Benjamin. Papers.

William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan. (Ann Arbor).

Continental Army Returns.

Morristown National Historic Park. (Morristown, New Jersey).

Manuscript Collection.

National Archives and Records Administration. (Washington).

Papers of the Continental Congress. (Record Group

360).

Revolutionary War Pension Records. (Record Group 15a).

War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records. (Record Group 93).

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

Early American Orderly Books, 1748-1817.

II. Bibliographies Guides.

Andrews, Charles McLean. Guide to the materials for the American History, to 1783, in the Public Record Office of Great Britain. 2 vols. Washington: Carnegie Institution, 1912-1914.

-----. Guide to the manuscript materials for the history of the United States to 1783 in the British Museum, in minor London archives, and in the libraries of Oxford and Cambridge. Washington: Carnegie Institution, 1908.

Blanco, Richard L. The War of The American Revolution: A Selected Annotated Bibliography of Published Sources. New York: Garland Publishing, 1984.

Baker, Mary Ellen, compiler. "Bibliography of Lists of New England Soldiers." New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 64 (1910), pp. 61-72, 128-135, 228-237, 327-336; 65 (1911), pp. 11-19, 151-159.

Butler, John P. Index to the Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. 5 vols. Washington: National Archives and Records Service, 1978.

Clark, David Sanders. Index of Maps of the American Revolution in Books and Periodicals: Illustrating the Revolutionary War and Other Events of the Period 1763-1789. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1974.

Clark, H.C. "Report on Publication of Revolutionary Military Records." In the American Historical Association Annual Report for 1915, pp. 193-199.

Davies, K.G., and N. E. Evans. Still in British Hands: Major Documents of the American Revolution in the British Public Record Office. Mystic, Conn.: Pendragon, 1981.

Deutrich, Mabel E. Preliminary Inventory of the War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records (Record Group 93). Washington: National Archives, 1962.

Filby, P. William, compiler. A Bibliography of American County Histories. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985.

Gephart, Ronald M. Revolutionary America 1763-1789: A Bibliography. 2 vols. Washington: Library of Congress, 1984.

----. Periodical Literature on the American Revolution: Historical Research and Changing Interpretations 1895-1970, A Selective Bibliography. Washington: Library of Congress, 1971.

----. "Revolutionary America, 1763-1789: A Bibliography." Ph.D. Dissertation, Northwestern University, 1980.

Higham, Robin, editor. A Guide to the Sources of United States Military History. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1975.

Matthews, William. British Diaries: An Annotated Bibliography of British Diaries Written Between 1442-1942. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1950.

-----, and Roy Harvey Pearce. American Diaries: An Annotated Bibliography of American Diaries Written Prior to the Year 1861. Boston: J.S. Canner, 1959.

Nebenzahl, Kenneth. A Bibliography of Printed Battle Plans of the American Revolution 1775-1795. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975.

Peckham, Howard H. "Military Papers at the Clements Library." Military Affairs, 2 (Fall 1938), pp. 126-130.

Sellers, John R., et al. Manuscript Sources in the Library of Congress for Research on the American Revolution. Washington: Library of Congress, 1975.

Shy, John. The American Revolution. Northbrook, Ill.: AHM Publishing Corp., 1973.

White, J. Todd, and Charles H. Lesser. Fighters for Independence: A Guide to the Sources of Biographical Information on Soldiers and Sailors of the American Revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977.

III. Reference Works.

Boatner, Mark Mayo, III. Encyclopedia of the American Revolution. New York: David McKay Co., 1966.

Cappon, Lester J., et al., editors. The Atlas of Early American History: The Revolutionary Era, 1760-1790. Princeton University Press, 1976.

Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College with Annals of the College History. 6 vols. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1885-1912.

Greene, Evarts B., and Virginia D. Harrington. American Population Before the Federal Census of 1790. New York: Columbia University Press, 1932.

Harrison, Richard A. Princetonians, 1769-1775: A Biographical Dictionary. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976.

Heitman, Francis B. Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution. Washington: National Tribune, 1890.

Holst, Donald W. "Eighteenth Century Military and Naval Terms." Military Collector and Historian, 31 (Spring 1979), pp. 4-7.

Johnston, Henry P. Yale and Her Honor-Roll in the American Revolution 1775-1783. New York: Privately printed, 1888.

Kail, Jerry, et al., editors. Who Was Who During the American Revolution. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merill Co., 1976.

Lesser, Charles H., editor. The Sinews of Independence. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975.

McLaughlan, James. Princetonians, 1748-1768: A Biographical Dictionary. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976.

Mellor, George R. "Emigration from the British Isles to the New World, 1765-1775." History, 40 (February-June 1955), pp. 68-83.

Peckham, Howard H., editor. The Toll of Independence: Engagements & Battle Casualties of the American Revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974.

Peterson, Clarence Stewart. Known Military Dead of the American Revolutionary War 1775-1783. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1959.

Peterson, Harold L. The Book of The Continental Soldier being a compleat account of the uniforms, weapons, and equipment with which he lived and fought. Harrisburg: Stackpole Co., 1968.

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Wells, Robert V. The Population of the British Colonies in American Before 1776; a Survey of Census Data. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975.

IV. Published Primary Sources.

Abbatt, William, editor. "Original Documents." Magazine of History, 19 (July 1914), pp. 32-34.

Almon, John, editor. The Remembrancer, or Impartial Repository of Public Events, for the Year.... London: J. Almon, Published annually throughout the Revolutionary Era.

Barnard, W. T., editor. Orderly Books of the Continental Forces, and Official Records of the Quartermaster's Department of the Revolutionary Army, 1775-1783. Volume I: Orderly Books. Washington: N.p., 1887. [No other volumes published.]

Beatson, Robert. Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain, From 1727 to 1783. 6 vols. London: Longmans, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1804.

Commager, Henry S., and Richard B. Morris, editors. The Spirit of 'Seventy-Six. New York: Harpers, 1967.

Dann, John C., editor. The Revolution Remembered: Eyewitness Accounts of the War for Independence. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.

Force, Peter, editor. American Archives: A Collection of Authentic Records, State Papers, Debates, and Letters and Other Notices of Public Affairs. 9 vols. Washington: M. St.Clair Clarke and Peter Force, 1839-1853.

Gordon, William. The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment of the Independence of the United States of America; including an account of the late war; and of the thirteen colonies, from their origin to that period. 4 vols. London: Privately printed, 1788.

Hamilton, Alexander. The Papers of Alexander Hamilton. Edited by Harold C. Syrett and Jacob E. Cook. 26 vols. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961-1979.

Kirkland, Frederick R., editor. Letters on the American Revolution in the Library at 'Karolfred'. 2 vols. Philadelphia: Privately printed, 1941.

Moore, Frank. Diary of the American Revolution. From Newspapers and Original Documents. 2 vols. New York: Charles Scribner, 1860.

New-York Historical Society. "Muster and Pay Rolls of the Revolution 1775-1783." 2 vols. New-York Historical Society Collections for 1914 and 1915.

Peckham, Howard H., editor. Sources of American Independence: Selected Manuscripts from the Collections of the William L. Clements Library. 2 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.

Ramsay, David. The History of the American Revolution. Dublin: William Jones, 1795.

Ryan, Dennis P., editor. A Salute to Courage: The American Revolution as Seen through Wartime Writings of Officers of the Continental Army and Navy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979.

Saffell, W. T. R. Records of the Revolutionary War: Containing the Military and Financial Correspondence of Distinguished Officers; Names of the Officers and Privates of Regiments, Companies, and Corps, with the Dates of their Commissions and Enlistments; General Orders of Washington, Lee, and Greene, at Germantown and Valley Forge, .... New York: Pudney & Russell, 1858; 3d Edition, Baltimore: Charles E. Saffell, 1894.

Scheer, George F., and Hugh F. Rankin, editors. Rebels and Redcoats. New York: World, 1957.

"Some Unpublished Revolutionary Manuscripts." Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, 2d Ser., 13 (January, May 1894; January 1895), pp. 17-24, 79-88, 149-160; 3d Ser., 3 (September 1902; April, July 1906), pp. 85-92, 118-123, 180-184; 6 (January-April, July 1909), pp. 12-16, 79-86.

Sparks, Jared, editor. Correspondence of the American Revolution; Being Letters of Eminent Men to George Washington, from the Time of His Taking Command of the Army to the End of His Presidency. 4 vols. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1853.

Stedman, C[harles]. The History of the Origin, Progress and Termination of the American War. 2 vols. Dublin: Privately printed, 1794.

Stevens, B. F. Facsimiles of Manuscripts in European Archives Relating to America, 1773-1783. 25 vols. Holborn, Eng.: Malby and Sons, 1889-1895.

Thacher, James. Military Journal of the American Revolution, From the commencement to the disbanding of the American Army; Comprising a detailed account of the principal events and Battles of the Revolution, with their Exact Dates, and a Biographical Sketch of the most Prominent Generals. 1823. Reprinted Hartford: Hurlbut, Williams & Co., 1862.

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Barrow, Thomas C. "The American Revolution as a Colonial War for Independence." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., 25 (July 1968), pp. 452-464.

Bartky, Eliot M. "War and the American Founding: Volunteerism and the Origins of American Military Policy." Ph.D. Dissertation, Rutgers University, 1983.

Belcher, Henry. The First American Civil War; First Period, 1775-1778. 2 vols. London: Macmillan, 1911.

Black, William G., Jr. "The Military Origins of Federal Social Welfare Programs: Early British and Colonial American Precedents." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Minnesota, 1989.

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Countryman, Edward. The American Revolution. New York: Hill and Wang, 1985.

Crackel, Theodore J. "Revolutionary War Records and Patterns of American Mobility, 1780-1830." Prologue, 16 (Fall 1984), pp. 155-167.

Cress, Lawrence Delbert. Citizens in Arms: The Army and the Militia in American Society to the War of 1812. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982.

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Dumont, William H. "Some Revolutionary Soldiers and Their Heirs." New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 114 (July 1960), pp. 177-193.

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Durand, John. New Materials for the History of the American Revolution. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1889.

Echevarria, Durand, and Orville T. Murphy. "The American Revolutionary Army: A French Estimate in 1777." Military Affairs, 27 (Spring, Winter 1963), pp. 1-7, 153-162.

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Ferling, John. "The New England Soldier: A Study in Changing Perceptions." American Quarterly, 33 (Spring 1981), pp. 26-45.

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Kilbourne, John D. "The Society of the Cincinnati in Maryland: Its First One Hundred Years, 1783-1883." Maryland Historical Magazine, 78 (Fall 1983), pp. 169-185.

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