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Historical Resources Branch

US ARMY CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY

The War of American Independence

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Prisoners of War


Alexander, John K. "Forton Prison During the American Revolution: A Case Study of British Prisoner of War Policy and the American Prisoner Response to that Policy." Essex Institute Historical Collections, 103 (October 1967), pp. 365-389.

Altner, Hanns G. "The Diary of Captain Wiederhold and the Hessians: A Military Idyll of the Days of 1776." Historical Review of Berks County, 2 (January 1937), pp. 50-54.

Amerman, Richard H. "Treatment of American Prisoners During the Revolution." Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, New Ser., 78 (October 1960), pp. 257-275.

Anderson, Olive. "The Treatment of Prisoners of War in Britain During the American War of Independence." Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 28 (May 1955), pp. 63-83.

Becker, Laura L. "Prisoners of War in the American Revolution: A Community Perspective." Military Affairs, 46 (December 1982), pp. 169-173.

Beroth, Janet. "The Convention of Saratoga." Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association, 8 (July 1927), pp. 257-280.

Boudinot, Elias. Journal or Historical Recollections of American Events During the Revolutionary War. Philadelphia: Frederick Bourquin, 1894.

----. "Colonel Elias Boudinot's Notes of Two Conferences Held by the American and British Commissioners to Settle a General Cartel for the Exchange of Prisoners of War, 1778." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 24 (1900), pp. 291-305.

----. "Colonel Elias Boudinot in New York City, February, 1778." Edited by Helen Jordan. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 24 (1900), pp. 453-466.

Bowie, Lucy Leigh. The Ancient Barracks at Fredericktown Where Hessian Prisoners Were Quartered During the Revolutionary War. Frederick: Maryland State School for the Deaf, 1939.

-----. "German Prisoners in the American Revolution." Maryland Historical Magazine, 40 (September 1945), pp. 185-200.

Bowman, Larry G. Captive Americans: Prisoners during the American Revolution. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1977.

----. "The Pennsylvania Prisoner Exchange Conferences, 1778." Pennsylvania History, 45 (July 1978), pp. 257-269.

----. "Military Parolees on Long Island, 1777-1782." Journal of Long Island History, 18 (Spring 1982), pp. 21-29.

Boyd, George A. Elias Boudinot: Patriot and Statesman, 1740-1821. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952.

Clark, Barbara Louise. E. B.: The Story of Elias Boudinot IV, his family, his Friends, and his Country. Philadelphia: Dorrance, 1977.

Clark, Jane, editor. "The Convention Troops and the Perfidy of Sir William Howe." American Historical Review, 37 (July 1932), pp. 721-723.

Coffin, Alexander. The American Captives at New York During the Revolutionary War. New York: 1865.

Cohen, Sheldon S. "Thomas Wren: Ministering Angel of Forton Prison." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 103 (July 1979), pp. 279-301.

Connor, Timothy. "A Yankee Privateersman in Prison in England, 1777-1779." Edited by William Richard Cutter. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 30 (1876), pp. 174-177, 343-352; 31 (1877), pp. 18-20, 212-213, 284-288; 32 (1878), pp. 70-73, 165-168, 280-286.

Dabney, William M. After Saratoga: The Story of the Convention Army. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1954.

Dandridge, Danske. American Prisoners of the Revolution. Charlottesville: Michie, 1911.

Denn, Robert J. "Prison Narratives of the American Revolution." Ph.D. Dissertation, Michigan State University, 1980.

-----. "Captivity Narratives of the American Revolution." Journal of American Culture, 2 (Winter 1980), pp. 575-582.

Dixon, Martha W. "Divided Authority: The American Management of Prisoners in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1783." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Utah, 1977.

Dring, Thomas. Recollections of the Jersey Prison-Ship. Edited by Albert G. Greene. Providence: H. H. Brown, 1829.

Edmonson, James Howard. "Desertion in the American Army During the Revolutionary War." Ph.D. Dissertation, Louisiana State University, 1971.

Egleston, N. H. "The Newgate of Connecticut: The Simsbury Copper Mines." Magazine of American History, 13 (April 1885), pp. 321-334.

Fogg, John S. J., editor. "Interesting Unpublished Letters of Burgoygne." Magazine of American History, 13 (May 1885), pp. 482-486.

-----, editor. "Interesting Unpublished Letters of Major-General Phillips." Magazine of American History, 14 (July 1885), pp. 91-95.

Ford, W[orthington] C., editor. "British and American Prisoners of War, 1778." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 17 (1893), pp. 159-174, 316-324.

Haines, Ferguson, editor. "Eight Unpublished Revolutionary Letters." Magazine of American History, 13 (January 1885), pp. 89-93.

Hyde, West, and John Andre. "Exchange of Prisoners, 1779." Historical Magazine, 8 (June 1864), pp. 200-207.

Knepper, George W. "The Convention Army, 1777-1783." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Michigan, 1954.

Knight, Betsy. "Prisoner Exchange and Parole in the American Revolution." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., 48 (April 1991), pp. 201-222.

Lewis, George G., and John Mewha. History of Prisoner of War Utilization by the United States Army, 1776-1945. Washington: Department of the Army, 1955.

Lingley, Charles R. "The Treatment of Burgoyne's Troops Under the Saratoga Convention." Political Science Quarterly, 22 (September 1907), pp. 440-459.

Metzger, Charles H. The Prisoner in the American Revolution. Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1971.

Nichols, Francis. "Diary of Lieutenant Francis Nichols, of Colonel William Thompson's Battalion of Pennsylvania Riflemen, January to September 1776." Edited by Thomas H. Montgomery. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 20 (1896), pp. 504-515.

Overton, Albert G., and J. W. W. Loose. "An Unusual Discovery: Prisoner-of-War Barracks in Lancaster Used during the Revolutionary War." Lancaster County Historical Society Journal, 84 (Trinity 1980), pp. 131-134.

Prelinger, Catherine M. "Benjamin Franklin and the American Prisoners of War in England During the American Revolution." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., 32 (April 1975), pp. 261-292.

Richards, Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg. The Pennsylvania-German in the British Military Prisons of the Revolutionary War. Lancaster: Pennsylvania-German Society, 1924.

Schieffelin, Jacob. "A British Prisoner of War in the American Revolution: The Experiences of Jacob Schieffelin from Vincennes to Williamsburg, 1779-1780." Edited by Gerald O. Haffner. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 86 (January 1978), pp. 17-25.

Shield, Benjamin. "Letter of Surgeon's Mate Benjamin Shield to Brigadier-General James Hamilton, 1781." Edited by Horace W. Sellers. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 19 (1895), pp. 116-118.

Sparks, Jared, et al. "Report on Exchange of Prisoners during the American Revolution." Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings, 5 (December 1861), pp. 325-347.

Stevens, Mary K. "The Convention Troops in Connecticut." Connecticut Quarterly, 3 (April-June 1897), pp. 144-149.

Tanner, Douglas W., editor. "The Story of the Convention Army." Albemarle County History, 41 (1983).

Van Dyke, John. "Narrative of Confinement in the Jersey Prison Ship, by John Van Dyke, Captain in Lamb's Regiment, N.Y.S.A." Historical Magazine, 7 (May 1863), pp. 147-151.

Wall, Alexander J. "The Story of the Convention Army, 1777-1783." New-York Historical Society Quarterly Bulletin, 11 (October 1927), pp. 67-97.

West, Charles E. "Prison Ships in the American Revolution." Journal of American History, 5 (January 1911), pp. 121-128.

White, Herbert H. "British Prisoners of War in Hartford During the Revolution." Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin, 19 (July 1954), pp. 65-81.