New Jersey Brigade

John U. Rees

New Jersey Brigade, vol. 2, 808 (250 words),
Mark M. Boatner, Encyclopedia of the American Revolution: Library of Military History, Harold E. Selesky, ed. (2nd Edition, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006)

"'What is this you have been about to day?': The New Jersey Brigade at the Battle of Monmouth, 28 June 1778," narrative and appendices available only on the World Wide Web, Monmouth

"'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.

"'He Come Out with us this time As a Volunteer': Soldiers Serving Without Pay in the Second New Jersey Regiment, 1777–1780," Military Collector & Historian, vol. XLV, no. 4 (Winter 1993), 154–55.

"'Be pleased to fill up the vacancy with the eldest Captain in the line …': Field Officers, Commissioned Officers, and Staff of the 2nd New Jersey Regiment December 1777 to May 1779,” Monmouth

"'The Great Neglect in provideing Cloathing': Uniform Colors and Clothing in the New Jersey Brigade During the Monmouth Campaign of 1778":

"The Jersey Blues:" The New Jersey Regiments, 1755–1776 "Never...Our Proper Quantity:" The New Jersey Brigade of 1777 "The Regiments Have No Uniforms or Distinguishing Colours:" Uniform Coats and the New Jersey Brigade During 1778 “The following Articles of Cloathing …": 1778 Nine Months Levies’ Apparel "Only a few light things in the Spring.": Clothing the Jersey Brigade’s Long Term Soldiers, 1778 Military Collector & Historian, two parts: vol. XLVI, no. 4. (Winter 1994), 163–170; vol. XLVII, no. 1 (Spring 1995), 12–20. Part I and Part II

"'One of the best in the army.': An Overview of Brigadier General William Maxwell's Jersey Brigade," The Continental Soldier, vol. XI, no. 2 (Spring 1998), 45–53

"'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.

"'Their presence Here … Has Saved this State …': Continental Provisional Battalions with Lafayette in Virginia, 1781”

Part 1. "'This Detachement is Extremely Good …': The Light Battalions Move South” A. "'The Fire of the Light Infantry …cheked the Enemys Progress …': Light Battalion Composition and Service” B. "'Ill founded jealousies, and groundless suspicions.": Unrest in the Light Battalions” C. "'The Cloathing you … long ago Sent to the light infantry is not Yet Arrived.': Apparel and Equipment” The Brigade Dispatch, vol. XXXVI, no. 2 (Autumn 2006), 2–23. Appendices for Above 1. Diary of Soldier with Lafayette’s Light Infantry, 1781 Diary 2. Asa Redington, Scammell’s Light Infantry Regiment, 1781 Article 3. Barber’s Light Battalion, 1781 (New Jersey Light Company Personnel) Article

"Eyewitness to Battle: The Pension Depositions of Frederick Van Lew and Isaac Childs," The Brigade Dispatch, vol. XXIX, no. 3 (Autumn 1999), 18–20.

"Eyewitness to Battle: The New Jersey Brigade at Connecticut Farms and Springfield, June 1780," The Brigade Dispatch, vol. XXIX, no. 4 (Winter 1999), 20–22.

"'Endeavering to Keep them from going to New York ?': The New Jersey Brigade’s Pursuit of the British Army, 18–27 June 1778” (manuscript)

"'The devastations of war …’: The New Jersey Brigade, July 1778 to June 1779” (manuscript)

"'The Combat was Renewed very Briskly ...': Maxwell's Brigade and the 1780 British Incursion into New Jersey" (manuscript)

"'The enemy hove in a tollerable fire ...': New Jersey Brigade Casualties in the Actions of Connecticut Farms and Springfield, June 1780" Article

"'Remembour me to all inquiring friends': Private Henry Johnson’s Letters, 1778 to 1780” (manuscript)

"'The new Leveys are coming in dayly ...': The Nine Month Draft in the Second New Jersey Regiment and Maxwell's New Jersey Brigade” (Including a study of "The Use and Effect of the Nine-Month Draft in the Other Brigades of Washington's Army"). *

"'In reduced circumstances': Pension Papers of the Soldiers of the 2nd New Jersey Regiment" *

"'From thence to the Battle ...': Gleanings from the Pension Depositions of the Soldiers of the New Jersey Brigade for 1778" *

"Losses in the New Jersey Brigade at the Battles of: Short Hills (June 26, 1777); Brandywine (September 11, 1777); Germantown (October 4, 1777)."*

"'They answered him with three cheers …’: New Jersey Brigade Losses in the Monmouth Campaign, 17 June to 6 July 1778" * Losses

"Listing of the Names of Casualties in the 2nd New Jersey Regiment from 1777 to Spring of 1779" *

* (Note: All the above marked with an asterisk are included in "I Expect to be stationed in Jersey sometime...": An Account of the Services of the New Jersey Regiment, December 1777 to June 1778, Part I MSS (1994), for which see Regimental and Battalion Studies.)

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