Stirring Up a Hornet's Nest: - UGA Laboratory of Archaeology ...

BII. Research Methods
The Field Director modeled this project after previous research projects at General George Armstrong
Custer’s Little Big Horn battlefield in South Dakota (Scott and Fox 1987), Robert Hanna’s Cowpens
battlefield in South Carolina (Babits 1998), and Georgia studies by the author and The LAMAR Institute
researchers at New Ebenezer, Savannah, and Sunbury battlefields in coastal Georgia, and the Lovejoy
Station battlefield in Lovejoy, Georgia (Elliott 2003, 2005, Elliott and Dean 2007; R. Elliott 2006).
BARCHIVAL RESEARCH
Many primary documents from the American Revolutionary war period were examined for this study.
Original correspondence and military documents, as well as finding aids for the same, were a vital
component of the present research project. The bulk of these were unpublished and housed in distant
repositories. Some of these records were examined during previous research efforts by The LAMAR
Institute, since 2002. These included:
� Brice (1779)
� British Headquarter Papers [or Carleton Papers] (1778; Brown 1778a, 1778b)
� Papers of the Continental Congress (Butler 1978)
� William L. Clements Library finding aids (Peckham 1978; Mitchell 1978)
� Sir Henry Clinton Papers (Clinton 1750-1838)
� Draper Manuscripts (Harper 1983)
� Duke University, Special Collections (Dunn 2002)
� Peter Force Papers, Library of Congress (Force various dates, 1848)
� Horatio Gates Papers (Saltzman 1979)
� Georgia Archives (1775-1793, 1779-1834)
� Georgia Historical Society (1991)
� Great Britain archival materials (Davies 1972-1978; Candler and Knight 1904-1916, 1908, 2001)
� John Faucheraud Grimke (1911, 1912)
� Historical Manuscripts Commission (1901-1906)
� Alexander Innes (1779a-b)
� Benjamin Lincoln (Hyne 1779-1780)
� Library of Congress (1975, 2002, 2003; Journals of the Continental Congress 1904-1937, 2002)
� New York Public Library (Kennedy 1900)
� Augustin Prevost (Prevost 1778, 1779a-f, 1780; Sir George Prevost Fonds 1776-1857; W.A.J.
Prevost 1949)
� U.S., National Archives and Records Administration (various dates; 1959, 1774-1789)
� University of Georgia Libraries (Cuyler various dates; Reid various dates; Georgia Legislative
Documents various dates)
� George Washington (1780a-b)
� Wayne Family Papers (1756-1900)
� Anthony Wayne (Wayne various dates; 1776-1796; 1779-1796; 1782a-b, 1794; LOC 1782)
� Wray Papers (1780)
� Wright (1873)
A wide range of published histories of the American Revolution were reviewed for the present study. These
include a small number of late 18 th century accounts. Anonymous sources in this category included (Annual
Register 1779, 1780, 1782, 1783, 1788 [1781]; Anonymous 1780). Others included: Andrews (1787); Sir
Henry Clinton (Wilcox 1954), William Moultrie (1802, 1980), Ramsay (1785, 1789, 1809), Stedman (1969
[1794]), and Tarleton (1968 [1787]).
The review of published histories with significant content about the American Revolution in the South
included many early to mid 19 th century works. Unpublished historical material from the early 19 th century
included collections of Joseph Vallence Bevan (n.d.).
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