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Recent items added or repaired on or before 18 Apr 2011

  • Pybus, Cassandra, et al, "Black Loyalist" website. "...a repository of historical data about the African American loyalist refugees who left New York between April and November 1783 and whose names are recorded in the Book of Negroes. In this first stage, the site concentrates on providing biographical and demographic information for the largest cohort, about 1000 people from Norfolk Virginia and surrounding counties.". "...refugee and or runaway" has been suggested as another description of their status. See RevList post by Bob Sherman (fwd of post by Cassandra Pybus) 17 Apr 2011. Source images provided.

  • I-Archive Hill, Roscoe R., Archivo General de Indias, Descriptive catalogue of the documents relating to the history of the United States in the Papeles procedentes de Cuba..., Washington, D.C., Carnegie institution of Washington, 1916. Suggested by John Morris.

  • I-Archive Archive.org Million Books Project. Advanced search form.

    DonsList finding guide for relevant digitized microfilm at Internet Archive Links provided to records for:


  • NPS EN Strach, Stephen, History of the Three Pound Verbruggen Gun in North America 1775-1783 (c), Eastern National Park and Monument Association, 1986, unpublished.    100 mb, full-text searchable.   Only this works: Right-click, save link as...
    Not public domain. Made available for personal research and reading from History and Culture page, Cowpens National Battlefield.

    Highly relevant: JR Cresap, Charles 'Cap', "Comments on Strach's History of the Three Pound Verbruggen Gun...

    JR '"Verbruggen 3-lb Gun Online". A summary of almost everything that can be found online, particularly in relation to the currently contradictory creation and/or publications dates of Strach's "History of the Three-Pound Verbruggen Gun...".

  • JR McCoy, Michael, "Grasshopper Cannon Interpretive Talk" written by a volunteer interpreter at Cowpens National Battlefield for use with programs for school children.


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  • Google ads added. Pays the rent.


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  • Thayer Galvez, Bernardo de, "Diary of the Operations Against Pensacola 1780-1781". From the website of Bill Thayer. Use control-f and search for pensacola to find other versions of this diary as well as other relevant works.

  • Thayer Stephenson, Orlando W., "The Supply of Gunpowder in 1776", American Historical Review Vol. 30 No. 2 (January 1925), pp271-281. From the website of Bill Thayer.

  • Google Gayarré, Charles, The History of Louisiana, The Spanish Domination, Armand Hawkins, New Orleans, 1885. Also, here and Thayer here (Vol.III).


    Recent items added or repaired on or before 8 Mar 2010

  • Fixed broken links

  • Fixed glitched code at American Heritage Magazine causing extensive small font size.

  • Calvin Stockton, Ronald R. Stockton, "Are the Evangelicals an Ethnic Group?". Presented to the Symposium on Religion and Politics, April 24-26, 2008, Paul B. Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics, Calvin College. This paper has a simple thesis: We cannot understand the Evangelicals as a political force unless we understand that at the core of that political force is not merely a doctrinal system but an ethnic group, the Scots-Irish.

  • McJunkin, Major Joseph, Memoirs of. See Saye, Rev. James H..


  • JR Saye, James, Memoirs of Major Joseph McJunkin, 1847-48.

    library of Congress record: Author: Saye, James Hodge. Title: Memoirs of Major Joseph McJunkin, revolutionary patriot, by Rev. James Hodge Saye. First printed in the Richmond, Va., Watchman and observer in 1847, reprinted by the Greenwood, S.C., Index-journal in 1925 ... now issued in pamphlet form for the first time ... Published: [Greenwood? 1925?] LC Call No.: F273.M3S3

  • JR Cowpens Patriot Fatalities as noted in Patriots at the Cowpens by Dr. Bobby G. Moss.

  • Smithsonian Ferling, John, "Myths of the American Revolution", Smithsonian Magazine, January 2010. Suggested by Kathy McKay.

  • Metzloff, Paul W., A Window On Motivation In The War: The Battle of Williamson's Plantation, 12 July 1780.. Thesis, University of NC, Chapel Hill, Dept. of History, 1999.


  • CARL Moncure, John, Cowpens Staff Ride and Battlefield Tour Fort Leavenworth, KS : U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, [1996]. The historical viewpoint is that commonly accepted prior to the publication of Babits' Devil of a Whipping in 1998. Contains numerous primary sources.
    • .pdf version. I found this to download a bit slow, but the maps were quite readable.
      JR Alternate download from the Online Library website. Easier to read and navigate than the above.
    • html version. Maps were of poor quality in this version.
      Also, Archive.org here.

    Library of Congress record: Author: Moncure, John, 1949- Title: The Cowpens staff ride and battlefield tour / by John Moncure. Published: Fort Leavenworth, KS : U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, [1996]. LC Call No.: E241.C9M66 1996

  • CARL Robertson, William Glenn, The Staff Ride, Center of Military History, US Army, Washington DC, 1987.

  • Rouse's Psalms. See Scottish Metrical Psalter.

  • Scottish Metrical Psalter (1650). Per Edward McCrady, The History of South Carolina in the Revolution, 1775-1780, page 560, in South Carolina in 1780, "The Holy Bible, too, with Rouses Psalms indicated the hated rebellious sect [Presbyterians], and was univerally consigned to the flames." . Also, here.

  • JR Young, Thomas, Major, (1764-1848), "Memoir". From Phil Norfleet's site. Published in The Orion, October and November, 1843
    USC Libraries record: Title: The Orion. Description: 4 v. : ill. ; 24 cm. Frequency: Monthly Series: American periodical series, 1800-1850 ; reel 1216. Published: Penfield, Ga. : William C. Richards, 1842-1844. Vol. 1, no. 1 (Mar. 1842)-v. 4, no. 6 (Aug. 1844). Other Authors: Richards, William Carey, 1818-1892, ed. Kohn-Hennig Collection. Notes: Title from vol. t.p. Editor: 1842- , W. C. Richards. No numbers issued Oct. 1842-May/Aug. 1843. Vol. 4 includes supplement, "Il Capannetto." Library has another copy on microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1970-1972. (American periodical series, 1800-1850 ; reel 1216) Related to: Orion

  • "American Revolution: Insurgency Operations in the Southern Theater". Powerpoint presentation.

  • Neil, Brian W., "The Southern Campaign of the American Revolution: Insurgency from 1780 to 1782", submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Military Studies, USMC Command & Staff College. 2009.

  • "Battles of the American War of Independence 1775-1783" from a British perspective. From http://www.redcoat.me.uk.

  • USMA Cowpens Powerpoint animation, "The American Revolution, Southern Campaign 1780-1781". Includes one of the better animations of Cowpens. Requires Powerpoint or Powerpoint viewer.   JR Alternate download on Online Library website.   Powerpoint Viewer download.  


    Recent items added or repaired on or before 5 Jan 2010

  • Old "Whatsnew" file has been deleted to facilitate broken link testing.
  • A huge effort has been made to repair/remove all broken links in all associated files.
  • Added Archive.org versions of defunct 64th Rgt of Foot page files
  • Added unarchived copy of Purdon's "Sketch of 64th Rgt history"
  • Google books links remain to be checked "one click at a time" since they forbid all known link checkers.
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