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Historical Resources Branch

US ARMY CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY

The Continental Army

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Logistics


I. Manuscripts.

Connecticut Historical Society. (Hartford).

Trumbull, Joseph. Collection.

Wadsworth, Jeremiah. Papers.

Connecticut State Library. (Hartford).

Fitch, John. Papers.

Trumbull, Governor Joseph. Collection.

Correspondence of Joseph Trumbull.

Correspondence of Jeremiah Wadsworth.

Trumbull, Joseph. Commissary Accounts 1775-1778.

Friends Historical Society, Swathmore College. (Swathmore, Pa.).

Biddle Manuscripts.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania. (Philadelphia).

Biddle, Clement. Journal and Cash Books.

Challoner and White Papers.

Morris-Hollingsworth Correspondence.

Library of Congress. (Washington).

Blaine, Ephraim. Papers.

Force Collection.

Stewart, Charles. Papers.

Hughes, Hugh. Papers.

New Jersey Historical Society. (Newark).

Abeel, James. Letterbook.

New Jersey State Library. (Trenton).

Furman, Moore. Papers.

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

Hughes, Hugh. Papers.

New York State Historical Association. (Cooperstown).

Stewart, Charles. Papers.

New York State Library. (Albany).

Lewis, Morgan. Papers.

Yale University Library. (New Haven, Conn.).

Wadsworth Family Collection.

II. Printed Sources.

Aylett, William. "Correspondence of Col. William Aylett, Commissary General of Virginia." Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine, 1 (July 1919-January 1920), pp. 87-110, 145-161.

Bowler, R. Arthur. "Logistics and Operations in the American Revolution." In Don Higginbotham, editor, Reconsiderations on the Revolutionary War: Selected Essays (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1978), pp. 54-71.

Bradford, S. Sydney. "Hunger Menaces the Revolution, December, 1779-January, 1780." Maryland Historical Magazine, 61 (March 1966), pp. 1-21.

Burnett, Edmund C. "The Continental Congress and Agricultural Supplies." Agriculture History, 2 (July 1928), pp. 111-128.

Caldwell, Lynton K. "A Battle of Bureaucrats--1781." New York History, 33 (April 1952), pp. 154-158.

Carp, E. Wayne. To Starve The Army at Pleasure: Continental Army Administration and American Political Culture, 1775-1783. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983.

-----. "Supplying the Revolution: Continental Army Administration and American Political Culture, 1775-1783." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California at Berkeley, 1981.

Clounts, F. W. "Travel and Transportation in Colonial North Carolina." North Carolina Historical Review, 3 (January 1926), pp. 16-35.

Colles, Christopher. A Survey of the Roads of the United States of America, 1789. Edited by W. W. Rostow. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1961.

Crouch, Richard. "The Point of Fork Arsenal: Fluvanna County's Revolutionary Landmark." Bulletin of the Fluvanna County Historical Society, 4 (March 1967), pp. 1-12.

Delafield, Julia. Biography of Francis Lewis and Morgan Lewis. 2 vols. New York: Anson, D. F. Randolph & Co., 1877.

Destler, Charles McArthur. "Colonel Henry Champion, Revolutionary Commissary." Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin, 36 (April 1971), pp. 52-64.

Ferguson, E. James. The Power of the Purse: A History of American Public Finance, 1776-1790. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961.

Fitzpatrick, John C. "Bread and the Superintendent of Bakers of the Continental Army." Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, 56 (September 1922), pp. 513-520.

Francis, J. G. "Providence's Part in Provisioning the Camp at Valley Forge." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Montgomery County, 1 (April 1939), pp. 255-273.

Friedman, Bernard. "Hugh Hughes, A Study in Revolutionary Idealism." New York History, 64 (July 1983), pp. 229-259.

Graeff, Arthur D. "Henry Vanderslice: Wagon Master 1777-1778." Historical Review of Berks County, 2 (April 1937), pp. 67-73.

Hart, Charles Henry. "Colonel Robert Lettis Hooper, Deputy Quartermaster General in the Continental Army and Vice-President of New Jersey." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 36 (1912), pp. 60-91.

Heydinger, Earl J. "The Schuylkill, Lifeline to Valley Forge." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Montgomery County, 9 (October 1954), pp. 159-170.

Huston, James A. The Sinews of War: Army Logistics 1775-1953. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1966.

----. Logistics of Liberty: American Services of Supply in the Revolutionary War and After. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1990.

----. "The Logistics of Arnold's March to Quebec." Military Affairs, 32 (December 1968), pp. 110-124.

Jameson, Hugh. "Equipment for the Militia of the Middle States, 1775-1781." Military Affairs, 3 (Spring 1939), pp. 26-38.

-----. "Subsistence for Middle States Militia, 1776-1781." Military Affairs, 30 (Fall 1966), pp. 121-134.

Johnson, Victor Leroy. The Administration of the American Commissariat During the Revolutionary War. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1941.

-----. "Robert Morris and the Provisioning of the American Army During the Campaign of 1781." Pennsylvania History, 5 (January 1938), pp. 7-20.

Jones, Robert F. "William Duer and the Business of Government in the Era of the American Revolution." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., 32 (July 1975), pp. 393-416.

Leonard, Eugenie Andruss. "Paper as a Critical Commodity During the American Revolution." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 74 (October 1950), pp. 488-499.

McGehee, Minnie Lee. "Point of Fork Arsenal in 1781." Bulletin of the Fluvanna County Historical Society, 25 (October 1977), pp. 3-21.

McKee, Narguerite M. "Service of Supply in the War of 1812." Quartermaster Review, 6 (1927), pp. 6-19, 27-39, 45-55.

Montgomery, Thomas Lynch, editor. "Letter Book Respecting His Most Christian Majesty, 1780." Pennsylvania Archives, 6th Ser., 14: 207-254.

Mulligan, Robert. "The Sullivan Expedition of 1779 and Some Problems of Supply." Master's Thesis, State University of New York at Oneonta, 1972.

Neill, Edward D. "Washington's Letter on the Appointment of John Parke, Poet, Assistant Quarter-Master." New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 30 (July 1876), pp. 299-301.

Newton, Earle Williams, editor. "Court Martial of Isaac Tichenor, Sometime Governor of Vermont." Vermont Historical Society Proceedings, New Ser., 11 (September 1943), pp. 183-211.

Pinkett, Harold T. "Maryland as a Source of Food Supplies During the American Revolution." Maryland Historical Magazine, 46 (September 1951), pp. 157-172.

Randall, James G. "George Rogers Clarke's Service of Supply." Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 8 (December 1921), pp. 250-263.

Ridgely, Ruxton M., editor. "Provisioning the Continental Army." Maryland Historical Magazine, 9 (September 1914), pp. 241-249.

Risch, Erna. Supplying Washington's Army. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1981.

-----. Quartermaster Support of the Army: A History of the Corps 1775-1939. Washington: Quartermaster Historian's Office, Office of the Quartermaster General, 1962.

Salay, David Lewis. "Arming for War: The Production of War Material in Pennsylvania for the American Armies of the Revolution." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Delaware, 1977.

-----. "The Production of Gunpowder in Pennsylvania During the American Revolution." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 99 (October 1975), pp. 422-442.

Stapleton, Darwin H. "General Daniel Roberdeau and the Lead Mine Expedition, 1778-1779." Pennsylvania History, 38 (October 1971), pp. 361-371.

Stephenson, Orlando W. "The Supply of the American Revolutionary Army." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Michigan, 1919.

Stewart, Charles. "Two Revolutionary Letters of Col. Charles Stewart." Edited by A. Van Doren Honeyman. Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, New Ser., 6 (April 1921), pp. 86-89.

-----. "Supplies for General Sullivan: The Correspondence of Colonel Charles Stewart, May-September, 1779." Edited by Marion Brophy and Wendell Tripp. New York History, 60 (July, October 1979), pp. 245-281, 439-467; 61 (January 1980), pp. 43-80.

Svejda, George J. Quartering, Disciplining, and Supplying the Army at Morristown, 1779-1780. Washington: Department of the Interior, 1970.

Tousey, Thomas G. "York As A Supply Center For The Revolutionary Army." Papers of the Historical Society of York County, New Ser., 5 (1939), pp. 1-11.

Trumbull, Jonathan. "Joseph Trumbull, The First Commissary General of the Continental Army." Records and Papers of the New London County Historical Society, 2 (1897), pp. 329-347.

Van Tyne, C. H. "French Aid before the Alliance of 1778." American Historical Review, 31 (October 1925), pp. 20-40.

Waldenmaier, Nellie P., editor. Day Book of Peter Anspach, Paymaster to the Quartermaster General's Department, September 10, 1781 to May 17, 1782. Washington: National Genealogical Society, 1941.

Weiss, Jacob. "The Letter Book of Jacob Weiss, Deputy Quartermaster General of the Revolution." Edited by Melvin Boyer. Proceedings of the Lehigh County Historical Society, 21 (September 1956), pp. 5-136.

Wright, John W. "Military Contributions During the Eighteenth Century." Military Affairs, 3 (Spring 1939), pp. 3-13.


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