joining army, 14, 54
learning fife, 10
privateer, 307–15
reunited with mother, 33–34
schooner captain, 316–18
Trenton, 142–48
Washington’s dentist, 366
H
Hamilton, Alexander, 159, 355
Hancock, John, 30, 295
Henry, Patrick, 41, 277
Herrick, John, 249–250
Herring, John, 249–250
Holland, trade with, 304
Howe, Gen. William, 133, 135, 149, 165, 209, 230–31
Bunker Hill, 2–5
departing Boston, 37
physical appearance, 2
Howe, Lord Richard, 28, 296
J
Jones, John Paul, 289, 306–7, 321
K
Kalb, Gen. Baron Johann de, 325, 328, 332
Kellog, Margaret, 124, 133
kidnappings, 272
Knox, Gen. Henry, 35, 140, 145, 148, 150, 156, 272
wife Lucy, 362
Knyphausen, Gen. Wilhelm, 230, 337
Springfield, 338–39, 343
Kollock, Shepard, 262, 272–73, 365
L
Lafayette, Marquis de, 230, 295, 348
Monmouth, 267
Laurens, Col. John, 56, 288
Laurens, Henry, 227, 236, 272, 300
Lee, Gen. Charles, 26, 265, 272, 306
Monmouth, 266, 268
Lee, Richard Henry, 300, 304
life guard. See Washington, life guard
Lincoln, Gen., 198, 360
Livingston, Gov. William, 236, 272–73, 327, 334, 340
Louis XVI, King, 240
M
Martin, Pvt. Joseph Plumb, 54, 179, 265, 326, 335–36, 356, 361
Maverick, Samuel, 10–11
McCarty, Sgt. Thomas, 137–38
McMichael, Lt. James, 53, 137, 157, 178, 188, 241, 366
Brandywine Creek, 230
Germantown, 232
Long Island, 165
Morristown 1776–77 winter, 164
poetry of, 168, 171, 174–76, 237–39, 242
Valley Forge, 229, 232, 237
wife Susanna, 167–70, 174, 176, 183
Mercer, Gen. Hugh, 157–58
Monmouth, 264–70
Monroe, Lt. James, 49, 145
Montgomery, Gen. Richard, 63, 73–74, 100
Montreal. See Canadian expedition
Morgan’s riflemen, 75, 195–97
Morgan, Daniel, 75, 201
Morison, Pvt. George, 53, 65, 69, 75
Morristown
1776–77 winter, 163
1779–80 winter, 322–35
January 1781 mutiny, 345
Murray, John (Earl of Dunmore), 283
N
North, Lord, 362–63
O
O’Hara, Gen. Charles, 360
Olney, Capt. Stephen, 155–56, 349, 355–57, 365
Monmouth, 269
P
Paine, Thomas, 41, 139, 183
Pigot, Gen. Robert, 294, 296, 298–99
Potts, Dr. Jonathan, 123, 127, 132
Prescott, Col. William, 2, 5
prisoners, 77
parole, 78
prison exchanges, 78
prison ships, 78, 307
privateering, 304–6
prostitutes, 181–82
Washington’s ban, 183
Putnam, Gen. Israel, 2, 5, 16, 138
Q
Quebec. See Canadian expedition
R
Rall, Col. Johann, 139, 143–44, 146
Reed, Col. James, 109–10, 122
Revere, Paul, 41
Riedesel, Baron Friederich von. See von Riedesel, Baron
Friederich
Robbins, Rev. Ammi, 95, 99, 102–3, 107, 119–32, 365
early sermon style, 98
meeting Beebe, 105
reenlisting, 120, 127
returning home, 119, 124, 132
Rochambeau, Lt. Gen. Donatien Marie, 347–48, 352–55, 360
Rush, Dr. Benjamin, 221, 223–25
S
Saratoga, 190, 192–94, 232
first battle, 195–200
second battle, 200–206
Schuyler, Gen. Philip, 62, 186, 195
Canadian expedition, 62–63
on black soldiers, 282
Seely, Capt. Sylvanus, 257–63, 272, 322–23, 331–32, 365
affair with Mrs. Ball, 273–76
court-martial, 332–34
Monmouth, 264–68, 270
Springfield, 339–40
wife Jane, 259, 271, 274–75, 365
Senter, Dr. Isaac, 65, 76, 100
Shaw, Maj. Samuel (Sam), 54, 155, 158, 231, 366
Sherburne, Maj. Henry, 86, 107, 146
slaves. See African Americans
smallpox, 24, 79, 100–111, 114, 125, 164, 226, 260, 284–85
at Valley Forge, 226–27
death tolls, 100–101, 115
effect on recruitment, 115
inoculation procedure, 101
secret inoculations, 106–7
symptoms, 101
Springfield, 337–44
St. Leger, Col. Barry, 191–92, 199
Stark, Gen. John, 3, 191, 259
Steuben, Gen. Baron Friedrich
Wilhelm von. See von Steuben,
Gen. Baron Friedrich Wilhelm
Stirling, Gen. Lord, 172, 330–32
Stocking, Pvt. Abner, 69, 71, 75
substitution system, 287
Sullivan, Gen. John, 114, 137, 159, 189, 230, 295, 320
Newport, 295–96, 298–300
Three Rivers, 91
Trenton, 143
T
taxes on colonists, 39–40
Thacher, Dr. James, 3, 6, 324, 328–29, 342, 354
on Burgoyne’s surrender, 206
on Cornwallis’s surrender, 361
Thomas, Gen. John, 35, 83, 100, 103
halting smallpox inoculations, 106
ill with smallpox, 107–8, 110
Thompson, Gen. William, 91, 114, 156
V
Valley Forge, 209–10, 218–28, 232–42
congressional committee, 221
construction, 210, 213
disease, 221–27
political reasons for choice
of location, 210
supply problems, 218, 224, 232–33, 235, 237
weather, 219
Vetnoy, Susanna (Mrs. McMichael), 167. See also McMichael, Lt. James
von Riedesel, Gen. Baron
Friederich, 191, 195–96, 202–3
von Steuben, Gen. Baron
Friedrich Wilhelm, 240, 327, 340
Vose, Col. Joseph, 186–87, 193, 203, 349
W
Waldo, Dr. Albigence, 219, 222, 224, 227
Washington, Gen. George
agreement with Howe, 37
army discipline, 19, 26, 180, 183, 246–50, 288, 328
Brandywine Creek, 230–31
Canadian expedition, 60–62
Delaware, crossing of the, 135–36, 139–42
Delaware, second crossing, 148–49
desire for pro-army newspaper, 272–73
efforts against desertion, 173, 278
Germantown, 231
life guard, 243–45
meeting Sgt. White, 29
Monmouth, 264–70
Morristown 1776–77 winter, 164
Morristown 1779–80 winter, 322–23, 325–30
mutiny, 335–36, 346
need for militia, 258
Newport, 294–95
on black soldiers, 278–80, 285, 288
on chaplains, 96
on officers, 25
on slavery, 280
on sports, 21
physical appearance, 29
plea to troops, 149–50
Princeton, 154–56, 158, 161
servant Billy Lee, 244
sightings of, 54
size of army, 45, 231
Springfield, 337–40, 343
spy network, 321
Staten Island, 330
Trenton, 143–47
Valley Forge, 209–10, 218, 221, 223–28, 236–38, 240–41
wife Martha, 244, 362
Yorktown, 347–48, 350, 352–55, 358
Cornwallis’s surrender, 359–61
Wayne, Gen. Anthony, 237, 267, 269–70, 281, 319, 348–49
Webb, Samuel, 4–5
White, Sgt. Joseph, 137–38, 141, 145, 147–48, 150, 154–55, 162
in charge of artillery, 156 57
meeting Washington, 29
playfulness of, 160
Wild, Lt. Ebenezer, 192–93, 364
Monmouth, 267–68
promoted to lieutenant, 348–49
Saratoga, 186–87
first battle, 194–95, 199–200
second battle, 203–4, 206
Valley Forge, 210–13
Yorktown, 348–50, 352–54, 357–58, 360
Wilkinson, Maj. James, 141, 157, 198
Wooster, Gen. David, 100, 119–20
Y
Yorktown, 348–62
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