Uploads by John U. Rees

‘Lately apprehended in the first Maryland regiment …’

“A source of great comfort to his stricken parents.” A Civil War Soldier at Solebury Friends

“Little chariots painted red …” Continental Army Vehicle Paint Colors

“Sospecting the prisner to be a tory…”

“I Extracted 4 balls by cutting in the oposite side from where they went in …” Miscellaneous Accounts of Continental Army Surgeons and Surgeon’s Mates

“Square knapsacks are most convenient …” A Hypothesis Regarding British Knapsack Evolution

“Soldiers are ingenious animals.” American Civil War Campaign Shelters

"The Buck and Ball" (Newsletter of the Augusta County Militia) Philadelphia Campaign, 2010.

Brother Jonathan’s Images, No. 11. “An American Soldier” Artist

Tucker F. Hentz, “Use of Longarms by Commissioned Officers in Continental Army Rifle Units, 1775-1779,” Military Collector & Historian, vol. 61, no. 1 (Spring 2009), 12-18.

"The camps ... are as different in their form as the owners are in their dress ..."

"We are now ... properly ... enwigwamed."

Transportation for Gen. George Washington’s Headquarters and Guard, 1778, 1780, 1781, and 1782

“About an hour before day we dashed through the river again …” The October 1777 Schuylkill Expedition

(Section A) "I Expect to be stationed in Jersey sometime..."

Capt. John Paul Schott’s Independent Rifle Company, Ottendorff's Corps, Battle of Short Hills, 26 June 1777

Schotts Company Clothing and Equipment Guidelines

"Captain Antoni Selin and His Association with the Independent Corps of Captain John Paul Schott, Major Nicholas de Ottendorf and Col. Charles Armand"

"'An Account of some things I carried … in my Pack.'

“'With my pack and large blanket at my back …'

"'The load a soldier generally carries during a campaign …'

Eagle List Troop 34 (Including Projects) 2012 (New)

“`To Cash paid the Revrd. John Mason for Servant Hannah’s wages …'

Matthew Skic, “`Stand Fast in the Liberty'

Steven M. Baule, “Drummers in the British Army during the American Revolution,“ Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research

“Spent the winter at Jockey Hollow, and ... washed together while there …”

Weekend Schedule (Draft, 3 May 2016)

Examples of the Complexity of Continental Army Unit Lineage

“A quantity of public leather … made up into shoes and accoutrements …” Soldiers, Prisoners, and Deserters at the Continental Manufactory in Philadelphia (Including the role of artificer companies and regiments.)

Issued Rations, and Foods Found or Purchased by Mess Groups

"We... got ourselves cleverly settled for the night..."

"They had built huts of bushes and leaves."

Brother Jonathan’s Images, No. 10

"The Care and Cleaning of Firelocks in the 18th Century

“When the whole are completely formed, they may ground their arms …”

"Happy New Year, you guys."

Ira D. Gruber, “The Education of Sir Henry Clinton,” Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, vol. 72, no. 1 (Spring 1990)

“Carols by Candlelight"

"Headmaster with a Heart" by Charlotte Andersen

5th Penna. Battalion 1776 Two

“At Eutau Springs he received three wounds …”

William W. Reynolds, “The Virginia Militia at the Siege of Yorktown,” Military Collector & Historian, Vol. 67, no. 2 (Summer 2015), 168-186.

(Living History) 4th Connecticut Regiment, 1778, Valley Forge Guidelines

Harold E. Selesky, A Demographic Survey of the Continental Army That Wintered at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1777-1778

Sheldon S. Cohen, “Captain William Leslie’s ‘Paths of Glory,’” New Jersey History, v. 108, no. 1-2, spring/summer 1990

Bob McDonald, "A Primer on French Firelocks Supplied to the Continental Army"

Charlotte Brown, “The Journal of Charlotte Brown, Matron of the General Hospital, with the English Forces in America, 1754-1756”

James L. Kochan, “The Belted Waistcoat”

"The great distress of the Army for want of Blankets ..."