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The American Revolution:Military Organization, Engagements, and ProvisioningOrganizing an army from citizen militias, training men, finding food, clothing and weapons for them,moving them from one camp to another – all these administrative and strategic decisions are part of thehistory of the war. The following resources direct the researcher to useful resources, provide briefinformation or offer primary documents on the Revolutionary War in America.I. Guides, Bibliographies and ChronologiesGephart, Ronald M. Revolutionary America, 1763-1789: a bibliography. Washington:Library of Congress, 1984. Ref Z 1238.G43 Dated, but basic early sources arelisted.Karapalides, Harry J. Dates of the American Revolution: who, what, and where in theWar for Independence. Shippensburg, PA: Burd Street Press, 1998. E 209.K37Koenig, William J. European manuscript sources of the American Revolution. NewYork: Bowker, 1974. CD 1002.K63Library of Congress. Manuscript sources in the Library of Congress for research on theAmerican Revolution. Washington, Library of Congress; U.S. GPO, 1975.Z1238.U57Bibliographies of the War of American Independence from the U.S. Army Center ofMilitary History. http://www.history.army.mil/reference/revbib/revwar.htmThe History Place: American Revolution (Chronology).http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/II.Dictionaries and EncyclopediasFremont-Barnes, Gregory. The encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War: apolitical, social, and military history. Santa Barbara, Cal: ABC-CLIO, 2006. 5vols. Ref E208 .E64 2006Selesky, Harold E. Encyclopedia of the American Revolution: library of militaryhistory. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006. 2 vols. Ref E208 .E63 2006Entries for people, battles, foreign relations, espionage, etc,III.Subject headings to search in the online catalog,http://lion.wm.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/57/49?user_id=CWRPUBUnited States. Continental ArmyUnited States History Revolution, 1775-1783United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Participation, FrenchUnited States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Participation, Indian1

Warrants, Regulations, Returns; Tables, Forms, Extracts from Military Acts;Battles, Sieges, Forts, Ports, Military Dictionary, &c. with Twenty-Five Mapsand Copper Plates. By Thomas Simes, Esq. Author of the Military Medley. .London: printed for J. Millan, near Whitehall, 1781.. Special Collections U101.S58 1776 and INTERNET ACCESSIBLE [ECCO]Simes, Thomas. The military medley: containing the most necessary rules anddirections for attaining a competent knowledge of the art, to which is added anexplanation of military terms, alphabetically digested. Oldwick, NJ: King'sArms Press and Bindery, [1993?] U101 .S585 1993VI.The Revolutionary War in VirginiaThe Revolution in Virginia webography,http://research.history.org/JDRLibrary/Online_Resources/Research_Topics/WebRevolution.cfmCecere, Michael. Captain Thomas Posey and the 7th Virginia Regiment. Bowie,MD: Heritage Books, 2005. E207 .P74 C43 2005Cecere, Michael. They behaved like soldiers: Captain John Chilton and the ThirdVirginia Regiment, 1775-1778. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 2004. E263 .V8C43 2004Febiger, Christian. “Colonel Christian Febiger papers, 1777-1782”. M-1085, 2reels. Col. Febiger was Lt. Col in the 11 th Virginia Regiment and after July,1779, Commander, 2 nd Virginia Regiment.Minnis, M. Lee. The First Virginia Regiment of foot, 1775-1783. {Lovettsville, Va.}:Willow Bend Books, 1998. E263 .V8 M56 1998Peters, Joan W. The Third Virginia Regiment of Foot, 1776-1778: with flags flyingand drums beating. 2 vols. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 2008. E263 .V8 P48Selby, John E.A Chronology of Virginia and the War of Independence, 1763-1783.Charlottesville: Virginia Independence Bicentennial Commission, UniversityPress of Virginia, 1973. E263 .V8 S44 1973The Revolution in Virginia, 1775-1783. Williamsburg, Va.: ColonialWilliamsburg Foundation; Charlottesville, Va.: Distributed by University Pressof Virginia, 1988. E263 .V8 S45 1988United States. Continental Army. Virginia Regiment, 6th (1776-1778), et al. TheOrderly Book of That Portion of the American Army Stationed At or NearWilliamsburg, Va., Under the Command of General Andrew Lewis, From March18th, 1776, to August 28th, 1776. Richmond, Va.: Privately printed, 1860.Special Collections E263 .V8 V74Virginia. War Office. Papers, 1779-1803. M-1169.1-2Woodford, William. “Orderly book, 1775-76”. [Copies of General Orders Issued atCollege Camp, Great Bridge Camp, and Norfolk, mainly by Col. Thomas Bullettand Col. Patrick Henry, Jr. ] from the Muhlenberg Papers, Historical Society ofPennsylvania, M-1230.3

VII.Provisioning the ArmyAylett, William. "Correspondence of Col. William Aylett, Commissary General ofVirginia". [1775- ] Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine,Vol. 1, 1919, pp 87-111; 145-161.Huston, James A. Logistics of liberty: American services of supply in theRevolutionary War and after. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1991.E255 .H92 1991.Risch, Erna. Supplying Washington's Army. Washington, D.C.: Center of MilitaryHistory, United States Army, U.S. GPO, 1981. E259.R57 1981Virginia. Commercial Agent's Loose Papers, 1781-1810; Orders on the Public Store,July-October, 1779. M-1176Virginia. Records of the Public Store in Williamsburg, 1775-1780. M-1016.1-4Virginia. State Agent's loose papers, 1775-1795. M-1174.1-3VIII. Manuscript CollectionsOriginal documents, letters and drawings can be found in the Rockefeller Library’sSpecial Collections.http://research.history.org/JDRLibrary/Special_Collections/SCFindMS.cfmExamples:“Lt. Col. John Graves Simcoe Papers, ca 1776-1806” [British officer’s papers includea map of Williamsburg and watercolor of Yorktown.“Humphrey Harwood Account Book, 1776-1792” [Builder who built or repairedmany public and private buildings in Williamsburg, including barracks forsoldiers.]“Marquis de Lafayette Letter to Governor Thomas Nelson, 1781, June 28”“John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg Letter to George Weedon, 1781 July 29”“Dickinson Family Papers, 1778-1845 [Includes Edmund Dickinson’s letter fromValley Forge to his sister in Williamsburg.]Juleigh Clark, April 20134