Letters, Diaries, and Order Books

John U. Rees

“`Marched at Day Break and fell in With the Rebels’: Anonymous British Diary, 13 April 1777 to 26 September 1777,” transcript

"`Necessarys … to be Properley Packd: & Slung in their Blanketts’: Selected Transcriptions 40th Regiment of Foot Order Book,” transcript

"`We ... wheeled to the Right to form the Line of Battle': Colonel Israel Shreve's Journal of 1777," The Brigade Dispatch, vol. XXII, no. 1 (Spring 1992), 7–16.

“`We had a small attack … with our Riflemen …’: A Pennsylvania Soldier’s 1776 Letter,” Military Collector & Historian, vol. 61, no. 3 (Fall 2009), 155–156." transcript

“`The end of the war will be the commencement of our felicity.’: Insights on Two Campaigns, Col. Israel Shreve (1779) and Lt. Col. Francis Barber (1781),” American Revolution (Magazine of the American Revolution Association), vol. 1, no. 3 (October 2009), 47–52. transcript

“Diary of Soldier with Lafayette’s Light Infantry, 1781” transcript

“Asa Redington, Scammell’s Light Infantry Regiment, 1781” (soldier’s memoir) transcript

“`The British army marched out and grounded their arms …’: Pennsylvania Lt. William Feltman’s Diary 26 May to 5 November 1781” (transcript)

“`Remembour me to all inquiring friends’: New Jersey Private Henry Johnson’s Letters, 1778 to 1780” (manuscript)

"`The Action was renew.d with a very warm Canonade’: A New Jersey Officer’s Diary, June 1777 to August 1778” (manuscript)

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