Bibliography


Angell, Israel. Diary of Colonel Israel Angell Commanding the Second Rhode Island Continental Regiment during the American Revolution 1778-1781. Edited by Edward Field. Providence: Preston and Rounds, 1899.

David, Ebenezer. A Rhode Island Chaplain in the Revolution: Letters of Ebenezer David to Nicholas Brown 1775-1778. Edited by Jeanette D. Black and William Greene Roelker. Providence: Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati, 1949.

Greenman, Jeremiah. Diary of a Common Soldier in the American Revolution, 1775-1783: An Annotated Edition of the Military Journal of Jeremiah Greenman. Edited by Robert C. Bray and Paul E. Bushnell. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1978.

Lovell, Louise Lewis. Israel Angell, Colonel of the 2nd Rhode Island Regiment. [New York]: Knickerbocker Press, 1921.

Najecki, Roy. A Short History of the 2nd Rhode Island Regiment of the Continental Line. 1983.

Walker, Anthony. So Few The Brave (Rhode Island Continentals 1775-1783). Newport: Seafield Press, 1981.

Ward, John. A Memoir of Lieut.-Col. Samuel Ward, First Rhode Island Regiment, Army of the American Revolution; with a Genealogy of the Ward Family. New York: Privately printed, 1875. [Reprinted from New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 6 (July 1875), pp. 113-128.]

Williams, Catherine R. Biography of Revolutionary Heroes; Containing the Life of Brigadier Gen. William Barton, and Also, of Captain Stephen Olney. New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1839.

Secondary Sources for Regimental Info

Dearden, Paul F. The Rhode Island Campaign of 1778 an Auspicious Dawn of Alliance. Providence: , 1987.

Greene, Nathanael. The Papers of General Nathanael Greene. Edited by Richard K. Showman, et al. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Rhode Island Historical Society, 1976--.

Martin, Joseph Plumb. Private Yankee Doodle Being a Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier. Edited by George F. Scheer. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1962.

Moore, Warren. Weapons of the American Revolution ... And Accoutrements. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1967.

Neumann, George C. The History of Weapons of the American Revolution. New York: Bonanza Books, 1967.

Neumann, George C., and Frank J. Kravic. Collector's Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Revolution. Texarkana: Rebel Publishing Co., Inc., 1989.

Neumann, George C. Swords & Blades of the American Revolution. Texarkana: Rebel Publishing Co., Inc., 1991.

Neumann, George C. Battle Weapons of the American Revolution, The Historian's Complete Reference. Texarkana: Scurlock Publishing Co. Inc., 1998.

Richards, John. Rhode Island's Early Defenders and Their Successors. East Greenwich: Provisional Regiment of Chartered Commands, Rhode Island Militia, 1937.

Richardson, Edward W. Standards and Colors of the American Revolution. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982.

Risch, Erna. Supplying Washington's Army. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1981.

Taylor, Maureen. Runaways, Deserters, and Notorious Villains.

Wright, Jr. Robert. The Continental Army. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1983.

Drill Books

-----. Light Infantry Exercise: As ordered in His Majesty's Regulations for the Movements of the Troops. Whitehall: T. Egerton, 1797. (Facsimile Reprint).

-----. The Manual Exercise, as Ordered by His Majesty, in 1764. New York: H. Gaine, 1775. (Facsimile Reprint).

Schultz, A. N., editor. Illustrated Drill Manual and Regulations for, The American Soldier of the Revolutionary War. Union City: Pioneer Press, 1982.

Steuben, Frederick. Baron von Steuben's Revolutionary War Drill Manual. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1985.

Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States. Philadelphia: Styner and Cist, 1779. (Facsimile Reprint).

Wolfe. Instructions to Young Officers. London: J. Millan, 1780. (Facsimile Reprint).


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