Sabin reaches into all aspects of American history and culture. It touches upon the political and religious life in North America and at times South America and the Caribbean. It features American and European views of the colonization of the Americas, the American Revolution, the days of the early Republic and Jacksonian period, the antebellum period, Civil War, era of Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction, the settlement of the West and the onset of the Gilded Age. Through published pamphlets, tracts, memoirs, congressional legislation, correspondence, broadsides, biographies, histories, fiction and poetry, eulogies, sermons and innumerable other genres, Sabin opens a window onto the Americas through which few get to glimpse.
Databases
Both of these databases contains writings, orderly books, etc. related to military actions during the war.
This module consists of 26 collections from the holdings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the first North American historical society and the first library to devote its primary attention to collecting Americana. The collections digitized by ProQuest from the holdings of the Massachusetts Historical Society focus on the Colonial Era, the Revolutionary War, and the Early National Period, with some collections extending into the Civil War era. Among the collections on the Colonial Era, one notable collection is the Pre-Revolutionary Diaries, 1635-1774. This collection consists of 276 diaries written by 112 people. Taken together, these diaries provide a rich portrait of life in America before the American Revolution. Highlights of the Revolutionary War and Early National Period are the Benjamin Lincoln Papers, Revere Family Papers, Elbridge Gerry Papers, and Artemas Ward Papers.
Sabin reaches into all aspects of American history and culture. It touches upon the political and religious life in North America and at times South America and the Caribbean. It features American and European views of the colonization of the Americas, the American Revolution, the days of the early Republic and Jacksonian period, the antebellum period, Civil War, era of Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction, the settlement of the West and the onset of the Gilded Age. Through published pamphlets, tracts, memoirs, congressional legislation, correspondence, broadsides, biographies, histories, fiction and poetry, eulogies, sermons and innumerable other genres, Sabin opens a window onto the Americas through which few get to glimpse.
Book Sources: Military
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commanding the Second Rhode Island continental regiment during the American revolution, 1778-1781; transcribed from the original manuscript, together with a biographical sketch of the author and illustrative notes by Edward Field.
Kemble was "deputy adjutant general of the forces in North America," 1772-1779. On his resignation Oct. 23, 1779, he went to Jamaica, and in Apr. 1780 was sent with reinforcements to supersede Col. Polson who had landed an expedition in Nicaragua. His later services were in England, Canada, West Indies, &c.
As described in two contemporaneous journals.
Edited by John Dawson Gilmary Shea.
The second journal was written "by a friendly hand, if not his [de Grasse's] own." cf. p. 21.
The name "Chevalier de Goussencourt," under which the first journal was issued, appears to be a pseudonym. cf. Pref.
containing the military and financial correspondence of distinguished officers; names of the officers and privates of regiments, companies, and corps, with the dates of their and enlistments; general orders of Washington, Lee, and Greene.
issued during the years 1778, '80, '81, & '82, selected from the mss. of John Whiting, lieut. and adjutant of the 2nd regiment Massachusetts line, and ed. by his son, Henry Whiting.
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