The First American Army - Bruce Chadwick [200]
Sullivan, Gen. John, 114, 137, 159, 189, 230, 295, 320
Newport, 295–96, 298–300
Three Rivers, 91
Trenton, 143
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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
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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
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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
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Yorktown, 348–62
Table of Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Epilogue
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Author to Reader
Chapter 1: Bunker Hill: The Arrival of Private John Greenwood, Age Fifteen, Fifer
Chapter 2: The Siege of Boston, 1775-1776: Private Greenwood Joins an Armed Camp
Chapter 3: Camp Life
Chapter 4: Mother and Son Reunion
Chapter 5: The Soldiers
Chapter 6: Why They Fought
March to Quebec
Chapter 7: Private Jeremiah Greenman and Benedict Arnold
Chapter 8: Jeremiah Greenman: Prisoner of War
Chapter 9: A Harrowing Retreat
Chapter 10: The Healers: The Reverend, the Doctor, and the Smallpox Scourge
Chapter 11: Death Becomes a Daily Visitor
Chapter 12: The Compassionate Minister and the Enraged Doctor
Chapter 13: Christmas, 1776: Private John Greenwood Crosses the Delaware
Chapter 14: The Victory That Saved the Revolution
Chapter 15: New Jersey and Pennsylvania, 1777-1778: Lieutenant James McMichael: A Poet Goes to War
Chapter 16: Women of the Revolution
Chapter 17: Saratoga, 1777: The Arduous Journey of Sergeant Ebenezer Wild, Nineteen
Valley Forge
Chapter 18: The Harsh Road to a Winter Camp
Chapter 19: Private Elijah Fisher and the Agony of Valley Forge
Chapter 20: "The soldiers of our army are almost naked Lieutenant James McMichael: The Poet
Chapter 21: Private Elijah Fisher Joins Washington's Elite Life Guard, 1778
Chapter 22: Monmouth, 1778: Captain Sylvanus Seely's Militia Goes to War
Chapter 23: The Secret Life of Captain Seely
Chapter 24: Spring 1778: The African American Soldiers
Chapter 25: The Heroism of the Black Rhode Island Regiment
Chapter 26: John Greenwood,