Rev War Books, Reading & Researching

Further researching for Major Fraser’s took me to the E-Zine of Southern Campaigns of the Revolutionary War, by Charles B. Baxley, editor & publisher. (http://southerncampaign.org/mag.php) There I found articles by various writers with keen interest in this area of history. Devotees are still reading the tons of archived papers and journals that lay in repositories nearly forgotten. Often an unpublished skirmish or a battle seen through the eyes of another soldier or militia man will discover facts unknown. Women also kept diaries that reveal important details.

The Diary of the American War, A Hessian Journal by Captain Johann Ewald, edited by Joseph P. Tustin is a book I kept close to me because he describes the terrain, the attitudes of the non-military locals as well as the battles and drew maps. He served in both the northern and southern campaigns. His personal touch to a war fought by a hired army from a foreign land adds an extra something to the story. Jim Piecuch writes of accounts from both sides of the military in his The Battle of Camden and his Blood Be Upon Your Head. Reading for research just carries me from one book to another to another, etc. Isn’t life great?