The American Revolution : writings from the War of Independence /

The American Revolution : writings from the War of Independence / John Rhodehamel, [editor].

This volume contains writings drawn from letters, diaries, newspaper articles, public documents, contemporary narratives, and private memoranda from more than 70 participants--American and British, Patriot and Loyalist, military and civilian. The writings describe the most dramatic events of the War...

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Other Authors: Rhodehamel, John H.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Literary Classics of the United States, [2001]
Series:Library of America ; 123.
Subjects:
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Sources.
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Personal narratives.
Table of Contents:
  • Paul Revere : memorandum on events of April 18, 1775 (The war begins : Massachusetts, April 1775)
  • Frederick MacKenzie : diary, April 18-21, 1775 (The British Retreat from Concord : Massachusetts, April 1775)
  • Thomas Gage to the Earl of Dartmouth, April 22, 1775 ("Fire from every hill, fence, house, barn" : Massachusetts, April 1775)
  • John Dickinson to Arthur Lee, April 29, 1775 (A Pennsylvanian reacts to Lexington and Concord : April 1775)
  • Peter Oliver : from "The origin & progress of the American rebellion" (A Tory view of Lexington and Concord : Spring 1775)
  • George Washington : address to the Continental Congress, June 16, 1775 (Washington accepts command : Philadelphia, June 1775)
  • John Adams to Abigail Adams, June 17, 1775 (Washington's appointment : June 1775).
  • Eliphalet Dyer to Joseph Trumbull, June 17, 1775 (An appraisal of Washington : June 1775)
  • Samuel Blachley Webb to Joseph Webb, June 19, 1775 (Battle of Bunker Hill : Massachusetts, June 1775)
  • George Washington to Burwell Bassett, June 19, 1775 ("Imbarkd on a tempestuous ocean" : June 1775)
  • John Adams to Abigail Adams, June 23, 1775 (Washington leaves for Boston : June 1775)
  • Peter Oliver : from "The origin & progress of the American rebellion" (A Tory view of Bunker Hill : Summer 1775)
  • Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, July 5, 1775 ("You are now my enemy" : July 1775)
  • The Continental Congress : address to the six nations, July 13, 1775 (An appeal to the Iroquois : July 1775)
  • Abigail Adams to John Adams, July 16, 1775 (A visit with Washington : July 1775)
  • Lord Rawdon to the Earl of Huntingdon, August 3, 1775 (A British account of Bunker Hill : August 1775).
  • Ethan Allen : from "A narrative of Col. Ethan Allen's captivity" (An American defeat in Canada : September 1775)
  • To the "Virginia Gazette", November 24, 1775 (Response to Lord Dunmore's proclamation : November 1775)
  • William Woodford to Edmund Pendleton, December 5, 1775 (Slaves fighting with the British : Virginia, December 1775)
  • Martha Washington to Elizabeth Ramsay, December 30, 1775 (The Continental Army outside Boston : December 1775)
  • Isaac Senter : journal, November 1-December 31, 1775 (The invasion of Canada : 1775)
  • Sarah Hodgkins and Joseph Hodgkins, February 1-20, 1776 (A continental officer and his wife correspond : February 1776)
  • John Bowater to the Earl of Denbigh, March 25, 1776 (The British evacuate Boston : March 1776)
  • Abigail Adams to John Adams, March 31, 1776 ("Remember the ladies" : March 1776).
  • Peter Oliver : from "The origin & progress of the American rebellion" (A Tory view of the seige of Boston : Fall 1775-Spring 1776)
  • John Adams to Abigail Adams, July 3, 1776 (Congress votes for independence : July 1776)
  • The declaration of independence (Philadelphia, July 4, 1776)
  • Isaac Bangs : journal, July 10, 1776 (New York celebrates independence : July 1776)
  • Landon Carter : diary, June 26-July 16, 1776 (Slaves join the British : Virginia, Summer 1776)
  • Ambrose Serle : journal, July 12-23, 1776 (The British fleet arrives at New York : July 1776)
  • Joseph Reed : memorandum on meeting between George Washington and James Paterson, July 20, 1776 (Washington refuses to negotiate : New York, July 1776)
  • Benjamin Franklin to Lord Howe, July 20, 1776 ("It is impossible we should think of submission" : July 1776)
  • Henry Laurens to John Laurens, August 14, 1776 (Events in South Carolina : Summer 1776).
  • Philip Vickers Fithian : journal, August 11-30, 1776 (The continental army at New York : August 1776)
  • Jabez Fitch : diary, August 27-28, 1776 (Battle of Long Island : August 1776)
  • Henry Strachey : memorandum on meeting between Lord Howe and the American commissioners, September 11, 1776 (A British peace plan fails : September 1776)
  • Ambrose Serle : journal, August 22-September 15, 1776 (British victories at New York : Summer 1776)
  • Philip Vickers Fithian : journal, September 15, 1776 (Battle of Kips Bay : New York, September 1776)
  • Benjamin Trumbull : journal, September 15-16, 1776 (Kips Bay and Harlem Heights : New York, September 1776)
  • Frederick MacKenzie : diary, September 20-22, 1776 (The burning of New York : September 1776)
  • Robert Auchmuty to the Earl of Huntingdon, January 8, 1777 (Capture of Fort Washington : New York, November 1776).
  • George Washington to Lund Washington, December 10 and 17, 1776 (The American retreat : Pennsylvania, December 1776)
  • Thomas Paine : the American crisis, number I, December 19, 1776 (Philadelphia, December 1776)
  • Thomas Rodney : diary, December, 18-25, 1776 (Defending Philadelphia : Pennsylvania, December, 1776)
  • George Washington to John Hancock, December 27, 1776 (Battle of Trenton : New Jersey, December 1776)
  • Thomas Rodney : diary, January 2-4, 1777 (Battle of Princeton : New Jersey, January 1777)
  • Nicholas Cresswell : journal, January 5-17, 1777 (News of Trenton : Virginia, January 1777)
  • Jabez Fitch : narrative (American prisoners in New York : August 1776-January 1777)
  • John Peebles : diary, February 13-24, 1777 (Skirmishing in New Jersey : February 1777)
  • Abigail Adams to John Adams, March 8, 1777 (Hardship in Massachusetts : March 1777).
  • John Burgoyne : proclamation, June 23, 1777 ("The vengeance of the state" : New York, June 1777)
  • William Digby : journal, July 24-October 13, 1777 (The Saratoga campaign : New York, July-October 1777)
  • John André : journal, August 31-October 4, 1777 (The fall of Philadelphia : Pennsylvania, August-October 1777)
  • John Glover to Jonathan Glover and Azor Orne, September 21 and 29, 1777 (Battle of Freeman's farm : New York, September 1777)
  • John Adams to Abigail Adams, September 30, 1777 (Congress flees Philadelphia : September 1777)
  • Samuel Shaw to Francis Shaw, September 30, October 3, 13, and 15, 1777 (Battle of Germantown : Pennsylvania, October 1777)
  • Robert Morton : diary, September 16-December 14, 1777 (Occupation of Philadelphia : September-December 1777).
  • Sarah Wister : journal, October 19-December 12, 1777 (The Continental army at Whitemarsh: Pennsylvania, October-December 1777)
  • George Washington : general orders, December 17, 1777 (The army seeks winter quarters : Pennsylvania, December 1777) Albigence Waldo : diary, December 11-29, 1777 (The army moves to Valley Forge : Pennsylvania, December 1777)
  • John Laurens to Henry Laurens, January 14 and February 2, 1778 (A proposal to free and arm slaves : January-February 1778)
  • John Laurens to Henry Laurens, May 7, 1778 (News of the French Alliance : Valley Forge, May 1778)
  • Ambrose Serle : journal, March 9-June 19, 1778 (The British abandon Philadelphia : March-June 1778)
  • The Continental Congress : response to British peace proposals, June 13-17, 1778 (York, Pennsylvania, June 1778)
  • Henry Laurens to Horatio Gates, June 17, 1778 ("The door is shut" : June 1778).
  • John André : journal, June 16-July 5, 1778 (The British retreat to New York : New Jersey, June-July 1778)
  • James McHenry : journal, June 18-July 23, 1778 (The American advance : New Jersey, June-July 1778)
  • John Laurens to Henry Laurens, June 30 and July 2, 1778 (Battle of Monmouth : New Jersey, June 1778)
  • J. Hector St. John Crèvecoeur : narrative of the Wyoming massacre (Frontier warfare : Pennsylvania, July 1778)
  • Peter Oliver : from "The origin & progress of the American rebellion" (A Tory view of frontier warfare : Summer 1778)
  • George Washingotn to Henry Laurens, November 14, 1778 (Opposing a proposal to invade Canada : November 1778)
  • George Washington to Benjamin Harrison, December 18, 1778 (The weakness of congress : December 1778)
  • Stephen De Lancey to Cornelia Barclay De Lancey, January 14, 1779 (The fall of Savannah : Georgia, January 1779).
  • George Rogers Clark : narrative of the march to Vincennes (Capture of Vincennes : Illinois country, February 1779)
  • Alexander Hamilton to John Jay, March 14, 1779 ("To give them their freedom with their muskets" : March 1779)
  • George Washington to Henry Laurens, March 20, 1779 (Arming slaves "a moot point" : March 1779)
  • Samuel Shaw to Francis and Sarah Shaw, June 28, 1779 (Depreciation of continental currency : New York, June 1779)
  • "A whig" : to the public, July 30, 1779 (Banishing Tories : Philadelphia, July 1779)
  • William Barton : journal, August 27-September 14, 1779 (War against the Iroquois : New York, August-September 1779)
  • John Paul Jones to Benjamin Franklin, October 3, 1779 (Battle in the North Sea : October 1779).
  • William Moultrie : journal, April 2-Mary 12, 1780 (The seige of Charleston : South Carolina, April-May 1780)
  • The sentiments of a lady in New Jersey, July 12, 1780 (Aiding the continental army : July 1780)
  • Otho Holland Williams : narrative of the battle of Camden (An American rout : South Carolina, August 1780)
  • Royal Gazette : "Strayed ... a whole army," September 16, 1780 (A loyalist satire : New York, September 1780)
  • Benedict Arnold : to the inhabitants of America, October 7, 1780 (Arnold justifies his actions : New York, October 1780)
  • Benedict Arnold to Lord Germain, October 7, 1780 (A report on the continental army : New York, October 1780)
  • Alexander Hamilton to John Laurens, c. October 11, 1780 (Arnold and Major André : New York, September-October 1780)
  • Robert Campbell : Narrative of the Battle of King's Mountain (South Carolina, October 1780).
  • George Washington : circular to the state governments, October 18, 1780 (An appeal for new troops ; October 1780)
  • Anthony Allaire ; diary, October 7-November 25, 1780 (A loyalist prisoner : South Carolina, October-November 1780)
  • Eno Reeves : letterbook extracts, January 2-17, 1781 (Mutiny of the Pennsylvania Line : New Jersey, January 1781)
  • Oliver De Lancey : journal, January 3-21, 1781 (British attempts to exploit the mutiny : New Jersey, January 1781)
  • George Washington to Philip Schuyler, January 10, 1781 ("The event, which I have long dreaded" : January 1781)
  • Nathanael Greene to Alexander Hamilton, January 10, 1781 (The plight of the southern army : South Carolina, January 1781)
  • Nathanael Green to Catherine Greene, January 12, 1781 ("The distress and misery that prevails" : South Carolina January 1781)
  • Thomas Jefferson : narrative of Arnold's raid, January 13, 1781 (The British attack Richmond : Virginia, January 1781).
  • Daniel Morgan to Nathanael Greene, January 19, 1781 (Battle of Cowpens : South Carolina, January 1781)
  • George Washington to Robert Howe, January 22, 1781 (Mutiny of the New Jersey Line : New Jersey, January 1781)
  • Royal Gazette : "Our last will and testament," January 31, 1781 (A loyalist satire of Congress : New York, January 1781)
  • Nathanael Greene to George Washington, February 9, 1781 (Cornwallis invades North Carolina : February 1781)
  • Nathanael Greene to Joseph Reed, March 18, 1781 (Battle of Guilford Courthouse : North Carolina, March 1781)
  • Nathanael Greene to George Washington, March 18, 1781 (Prospects for defeating Cornwallis : March 1781)
  • Nathanael Greene to Thomas Jefferson, April 28, 1781 (An appeal for support from Virginia : April 1781)
  • Ebenezer Denny : Journal, May 1-15, 1781 (The Pennsylvania Line marches south : May 1781).
  • Thomas Brown to David Ramsay, December 25, 1786 (The war in Georgia : November 1778-June 1781)
  • Josiah Atkins : diary, June 5-July 7, 1781 (The campaign in Virginia : June-July 1781)
  • Ebenezer Denny : journal, June 18-July 7, 1781 (Skirmishing in Virginia : June-July 1781)
  • James Robertson to William Knox, July 12, 1781 (The British consider occupying Yorktown : July 1781)
  • Otho Holland Williams : narrative of the battle of Eutaw Springs (South Carolina, September 1781)
  • Ebenezer Denny : journal, September 1-November 1, 1781 (The Yorktown campaign : Virginia, September-November 1781)
  • St. George Tucker ; journal, September 28-October 20, 1781 (Siege of Yorktown ; Virginia, September-October 1781)
  • James Robertson to Lord Amherst, October 17, 1781 (The British relief expedition sets sail : New York, October 1781)
  • Lord Cornwallis to Henry Clinton, October 20, 1781 (Cornwallis surrenders : Virginia, October 1781).
  • Anna Rawle : diary, October 25, 1781 (Victory celebrations in Philadelphia : October 1781)
  • Robert Gray : observations on the war in Carolina (Partisan warfare in the South : May 1780-February 1782)
  • William Feilding to the Earl of Denbigh, August 10, 1782 (New York loyalists fear peace ; August 1782)
  • Ebenezer Denny : journal, January 4-December 13, 1781 (The war ends in South Carolina : January-December 1782)
  • John Armstrong : The Newburgh address, c. March 10, 1783 (An officer urges disobedience to Congress : New York, March 1783)
  • George Washington to Joseph Jones, March 12, 1783 (Political intrigue and the army : New York, March 1783).
  • George Washington : speech to the officers, March 15, 1783 ("The flood gates of civil discord" : New York, March 1783)
  • Samuel Shaw to the Rev. Eliot, c. April 1783 (Washington at Newburgh : New York, April 1783)
  • A New York loyalist to Lord Hardwicke, c. Summer 1783 (Loyalist emigration : New York, Summer 1783)
  • George Washington and Thomas Mifflin : speeches in the continental congress, December 23, 1783 (Washington resigns his commisstion : Annapolis, December 1783)
  • James McHenry to Margaret Caldwell, December 23, 1783 ("The revolution just accomplished" : Annapolis, December 1783)
  • Chronology.

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