Collection Guide: Early Engagements of the American Revolution

David Library Summer Intern Billy Griffith, an undergraduate history concentrator at Shepherd University, continues his series of guides to the Library's book collection with this installment on volumes relating to the early battles and engagements of the Revolution. This list should serve as an excellent starting point for those individuals who are beginning to read about the Revolution, as well as for seasoned researchers interested in the Library's holdings beyond our microfilm collection. The numbers above each entry are the call numbers for that title.


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Selected Readings of the Early Engagements of the Revolutionary War

by Billy Griffith

* Lexington and Concord: April 19, 1775

* Capture of Fort Ticonderoga: May 10, 1775

* Battle of Bunker Hill: June 17, 1775

* Siege of Boston: April 1775- March 1776

Lexington and Concord: April 19, 1775

3f
Clark, Jonas. Opening of the War of the Revolution, 19th of April, 1775 : a brief narrative of the principal transactions of that day / by Jonas Clark, pastor of the church in Lexington ; appended to a sermon preached by him in Lexington, April 19, 1776 ; with copies of engravings of scenes in Lexington and Concord, made and published in 1775 ... (Boston, 1875).

585
Coburn, Frank Warren. The battle of April 19, 1775, in Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Arlington, Cambridge, Somerville, and Charlestown, Massachusetts (New York, 1970).

490p
Fleming, Thomas J. The first stroke : Lexington, Concord, and the beginning of the American Revolution (Washington, 1978).

1187
French, Allen. General Gage's informers; new material upon Lexington & Concord, Benjamin Thompson as loyalist & the treachery of Benjamin Church, Jr.: a study (New York, 1932).

400
French, Allen. The day of Concord and Lexington, the nineteenth of April, 1775 (Spartanburg, 1969).

1286
Frothingham, Richard. History of the siege of Boston, and of the battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill. Also an account of the Bunker Hill monument. With illustrative documents (Boston, 1851).

1281p
Hersey, Frank Wilson Cheney. Heroes of the Battle road; a narrative of events in Lincoln on the 18th and 19th of April, 1775, wherein are set forth the capture of Paul Revere, escape of Samuel Prescott, heroism of Mary Hartwell, and other stirring incidents (Boston, 1930).

2473
Kehoe, Vincent J-R. "We were there!": April 19th 1775 (Chelmsford, 1974).
*A collection of all the known depositions, diaries, accounts, reports, orders and recollections of the most famous “longest day” in the American War for Independence from the view of the British soldier and the American rebel told from their actual words.


565
Lister, Jeremy. Concord Fight: Being so much of the Narrative of Ensign Jeremy Lister of the 10th Regiment of Foot as pertains to his services on the 19th of April, 1775, and to his experiences in Boston during the early months of the Siege (Cambridge, 1931)
* Jeremy Lister was an Ensign in the 10th Regiment of Foot and was present at the Battle of Concord and the early part of the Siege of Boston

1192
Mackenzie, Frederick. A British fusilier in Revolutionary Boston; being the diary of Lieutenant Frederick Mackenzie, adjutant of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, January 5-April 30, 1775, with a letter describing his voyage to America (New York, 1969).
*A British fusilier in Revolutionary Boston; being the diary of Lieutenant Frederick Mackenzie, adjutant of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, January 5-April 30, 1775, with a letter describing his voyage to America

6639
Morrissey, Brendan. Boston 1775: the shot heard around the world (London, 1995).

33 and 34
Murdock, Harold. The nineteenth of April, 1775 (Boston, 1775).

1189
Tomlinson, Abraham. The military journals of two private soldiers, 1758-1775, with numerous illustrative notes to which is added, a supplement, containing official papers on the skirmishes at Lexington and Concord (New York, 1970).
*Pages 49-90 contain the journal of Samuel Haws, a minuteman from Wrentham, Massachusetts. In his April 19 entry he describes news received about the skirmishes at Lexington and Concord. Pages 93-121 contain a supplement filled with papers written by participants of the skirmishes on April 19, including a casualty list.

5549
Tourtellot, Arthur Bernon. Lexington and Concord; the beginning of the War of the American Revolution (New York, 1969).

809
Tourtellot, Arthur Bernon. William Diamond's drum; the beginning of the War of the American Revolution (New York, 1959).

1478p
Whitehill, Walter M. Amos Doolittle's engravings of the battles of Lexington and Concord



Capture of Fort Ticonderoga: May 10, 1775


4977
Allen, Ethan. Ethan Allen and his kin: correspondence, 1772-1819 (Hanover, 1998).
*Pages 18-53 span the year of 1775

524
Chittenden, L.E. The Capture of Ticonderoga (Vermont, 1872).

1235
De Puy, Henry W. Ethan Allan and the Green-Mountain Heroes (New York, 1854).

523
French, Allen. The Taking of Ticonderoga in 1775: the British Story (Cambridge, 1928).

3714
Hall, Henry. Ethan Allen, the Robin Hood of Vermont (New York, 1892).

372p
Hall, Hiland. The capture of Ticonderoga, in 1775: a paper read before the Vermont Historical Society, at Montpelier, Oct. 19, 1869 (Vermont, 1869).

1028
Holbrook, Stewart H. Ethan Allen (New York, 1940).

1713
Hoyt, Edwin Palmer. The damndest Yankees: Ethan Allen & his clan (Vermont, 1976).

1236
Jellison, Charles A. Ethan Allen: Frontier Rebel (New York, 1969).

73
Pell, John. Ethan Allen (Boston, 1929).

514
Sellers, Charles Coleman. Benedict Arnold: The Proud Warrior (New York, 1930).

1233
Sherwin, Oscar. Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor (New York, 1931).

4619
Stimson, F. J. My Story: Being the Memoirs of Benedict Arnold: Late Major-General in the Continental Army and Brigadier-General in that of His Britannic Majesty (New York, 1917).
*In Chapter V, Arnold discusses his experiences during the expedition to capture Fort Ticonderoga in May 1775

507
Sullivan, Edward Dean. Benedict Arnold: Military Racketeer (New York, 1932).




Battle of Bunker Hill: June 17, 1775

5394
Brooks Victor. The Boston Campaign: April 1775- March 1776 (Conshohocken, 1999)

1272
Burk, John. Bunker-Hill or the Death of General Warren (New York, 1891).

511
Drake, S.A. Bunker Hill (Boston, 1875).

38
Ellis, George E. Battle of Bunker Hill (Boston, 1875).

11q
Elting, John Robert. The Battle of Bunker's Hill (New Jersey, 1975).

548
Fleming, Thomas J. Now We Are Enemies: the story of Bunker Hill (New York, 1960).

522
Frothingham, Richard. The Battle of Bunker Hill (Boston, 1875).

789
Frothingham, Richard. Life and Times of Joseph Warren (Boston, 1865).

1646
Heath, William. Memoirs of Major-General William Heath (New York, 1901).
*Pages 359-401 contain a work titled “History of the Battle of Breed’s Hill” that was written by William Heath, Henry Lee, James Wilkinson, and James Dearborn.

1555
Hill, George Canning. General Israel Putnam: A Biography (New York, 1888).
*Pages 135-161 is a chapter on Putnam at Bunker Hill

1225
Ketchum, Richard M. The Battle of Bunker Hill (New York, 1962).

559
Ketchum, Richard M. Decisive Day: the battle of Bunker Hill (New York, 1974).

7281
Lockhart, Paul. The Whites of Their Eyes: Bunker Hill, the First American Army, and the Emergence of George Washington (New York, 2011).


1345
Murdock, Harold. Bunker Hill: Notes and Queries on a Famous Battle (Boston, 1927).

6639
Morrissey, Brendan. Boston 1775: the shot heard around the world (London, 1995).

7277
Nelson, James L. With Fire and Sword: The Battle of Bunker Hill and the Beginning of the American Revolution (New York, 2011).

1420
O’Brien, Michael J. The Irish at Bunker Hill: Evidence of Irish participation in the battle of 17 June 1775 (New York, 1968).

81p
Pulsifer, David. An Account of the Battle of Bunker Hill : compiled from authentic sources; with General Burgoyne's account of the battle / by David Pulsifer  (Boston, 1875).

1268p
Swett, Samuel. Who was the commander at Bunker Hill?: with remarks on Frothingham's history of the battle (Boston, 1850).


Siege of Boston: April 1775- March 1776

Film 99
Cash, Philip. Aesculapius becomes a rebel: medical men and problems of the Massachusetts and Continental Armies at the siege of Boston, April, 1775-April, 1776 (Boston College, 1968).

332
French, Allen. The Siege of Boston (New York, 1911).

1286
Frothingham, Richard. History of the siege of Boston, and of the battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill. Also an account of the Bunker Hill monument. With illustrative documents (Boston, 1851).

565
Lister, Jeremy. Concord Fight: Being so much of the Narrative of Ensign Jeremy Lister of the 10th Regiment of Foot as pertains to his services on the 19th of April, 1775, and to his experiences in Boston during the early months of the Siege (Cambridge, 1931)
* Jeremy Lister was an Ensign in the 10th Regiment of Foot and was present at the Battle of Concord and the early part of the Siege of Boston

6658
McCullough, David. 1776 (New York, 2005).

6639
Morrissey, Brendan. Boston 1775: the shot heard around the world (London, 1995).


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