A Study of Army Camp Life during American Revolution

by Mary Hazel Snuff

Secondary Material

I  Biographical Sketches

Greene, George Washington,
Life of Nathanael Greene, 3 volumes, New York,1867–71.

The work is valuable because of documents quoted direct but the book shows the fact that it is written by a grandson of Nathanael Greene.

Kapp, Fredrick,
Life of Frederick William Stueben, New York 1859.

The impression of a foreigner as to American institutions.

Kapp, Friedrick,
Life of John Kalb, Major-General in Revolutionary Army New York, 1884.

The book gives the reactions a foreigner had to American institutions.

Lossing, Benson John,
Life and Times of Philip Schuyler, New York, 1860–72 in two volumes.

Details of life and times of the period.

Lossing, Benson John,
Illustrated Life of Washington, New York, 1856 in ten volumes.

Since it is a detailed life of Washington, it gives glimpses of camp life.

Pickering, Octavius,
Life of Timothy Pickering, Boston, 1867–73.

A life written by a son but has some valuable material.

Reed, Henry,
Life of Jasper Reed in Library of American Biography edited by Jared Sparks, second series, Boston 1854.

Sparks, Jared,
Life of Charles Lee in Library of American Biography edited by Jared Sparks, Second series Vol. VIII, Boston 1864.

II  Magazine Articles

Jordon, John W.,
"Continental Hospital Returns" in Pennsylvania Magazine Volume XXIII, pp. 33–50, 210–223. Philadelphia, 1899.

Jordon, John W.,
"The Military Hospitals at Bethlehem and Lititz during the Revolution" in Pennsylvania Magazine, Vol. XX, pp. 137–157. Philadelphia, 1896.

III  General Works

Botta, Charles,

History of the War of the Independence of the United States. Translated from Italian by George A. Otis, New Haven, 1884.

A foreigner's view of conditions here.

Bolton, Charles Knowles,
The Private Soldier Under Washington, New York 1902.

Channing, Edward,
A History of the United States, Vol. III, New York, 1912.

A good bibliography.

Ellet, Mrs. Elizabeth Fries,
Domestic History of the American Revolution. New York, 1850.

Valuable only for the light it throws on every day life.

Fiske, John,
The American Revolution, Boston, 1891.

Greene, Francis Vinton,
The Revolutionary War and the Military policy of United States, New York, 1911.

Military affairs emphasized.

Hatch, Louis Clinton,
The Administration of the American Revolutionary Army, New York, 1904.

Hart, Albert Bushnell, and Mabel Hill,
Camps and Firesides of the Revolution, New York, 1903.

The direct quotation of sources valuable.

Headley, J. T.,
The Chaplains and Clergy of the Revolution, New York, 1864.

A portraiture of the place of religion in the war especially the clergy.

Humphreys, Mary Gay,
Catherine Schuyler in women of Colonial and revolutionary times. Series New York, 1897.

Not good history, but gives insight into colonial Revolutionary life.

Lecky, William Edward Hartpole,
The American Revolution, edited by James Albert Woodburn from Mr. Lecky's History of England in the Eighteenth Century.

A good bibliography found in it.

Lossing, Benson John,
Pictorial Fieldbook of the Revolution, New York 1860, two volumes.

Some interesting details of life and times.

Lower, Charlemagne,
The Marquis de La Fayette in the American Revolution, Philadelphia, 1901

The impressions of a foreigner of American institutions.

Thornton, John Wingate,
The Pulpit of the American Revolution, Boston, 1876.

A book showing the place of religion in the war especially the Puritan pulpit.

Trevelyan, Sir George Otto,
The American Revolution, four volumes, New York, 1908–15.

This book puts emphasis on the war characters and their careers which was useful in this study.

Whorton, Anne Hollingsworth,
Martha Washington, in women of colonial and revolutionary times. Series, New York, 1897.

Not good history, but gives insight into colonial life and camp life.

Greene, George Washington,
Life of Nathanael Greene, 3 volumes, New York,1867–71.

The work is valuable because of documents quoted direct but the book shows the fact that it is written by a grandson of Nathanael Greene.

Kapp, Fredrick,
Life of Frederick William Stueben, New York 1859.

The impression of a foreigner as to American institutions.

Kapp, Friedrick,
Life of John Kalb, Major-General in Revolutionary Army New York, 1884.

The book gives the reactions a foreigner had to American institutions.

Lossing, Benson John,
Life and Times of Philip Schuyler, New York, 1860–72 in two volumes.

Details of life and times of the period.