This will be a growing compendium of books, articles and websites where additional interesting information can be found
Links
Revolutionary War Military Correspondence
These link to a fascinating Northern Illinois University Libraries web site called "American Archives: Documents of the American Revolution, 1774-1776" that features transcriptions of original documents relating to the Revolution. In some cases it seems
as though one is reading a minute by minute blog about the war, and in these links, The Battle of Brooklyn.
American Archives
and more specifically:
Extract of a letter from Long-Island: Account of Yesterday's Occurrences, Dated August 28, 1776.
And there are lots of other related documents.
Uniforms
To learn about the uniforms of the soldiers of Maryland and Delaware go to the site of California's Sons of the Revolution. Click on Colonial Uniforms. Look for Haslet's Delaware and Smallwood's Maryland.
Bibliography (Compiled by boardmember Marilyn H. Pettit)
Selected eighteenth and nineteenth century sources and narratives
Atlee, Samuel John. "Col. Atlee's Journal of the Battle of Long Island, August 26, 1776." Pennsylvania Magazine of
History and Biography, 2d Ser., 1 (1879), pp. 509-516.
Annual Reports of the Commissioners of Prospect Park, 1866, 1867, 1898
Chadwick, John W., "The Battle of Long Island" John W. Chadwick Papers, Brooklyn Historical Society
Collier, George. "'To My Inexpressible Astonishment': Admiral Sir George Collier's Observations on the Battle of Long
Island." Edited by Louis L. Tucker. New-York Historical Society Quarterly, 48 (October 1964), pp. 293-306.
Field, Thomas W., The Battle of Long Island (1869)
Johnston, Henry P., The Campaign of 1776 Around New York and Brooklyn (Brooklyn, 1878).
Martin, Joseph Plumb, Private Yankee Doodle: Being a Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier (Boston, 1962)
St. John, Oliver S., Notes of a Lecture given by O. S. St. John before the Brooklyn and Long Island Historical Society, April 7,
1864.
Stiles, Henry R., A History of the City of Brooklyn (1867)
Selected twentieth century resources
Boatner, Mark III, Landmarks of the American Revolution: People and Places Vital to the Quest for Independence
(1992)
Foote, Kenneth E., Shadowed Ground: America’Äôs Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy (2003)
Fraser, Georgia, The Stone House at Gowanus: Scene of the Battle of Long Island (1909)
Gallagher, John J., The Battle of Brooklyn, 1776 (1995)
Heller, Charles E. and William A. Stofft, eds., America's First Battles, 1776-1965 (1986)
Higgins, Charles M., Brooklyn's Neglected Battle Ground (1910)
Huntington, Edna, ed., Historical Markers and Monuments in Brooklyn (1952)
Kammen, Michael, Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture (1993), esp. pp. 259-
60, 271-72
Letters and Other Material Relating to the Maryland Tablet on Third Avenue Between 7th and 8th Streets, Brooklyn, NY
(Brooklyn Historical Society)
Linder, Marc and Laurence S. Zacharias, Of Cabbages and Kings County; Agriculture and the Formation of Modern
Brooklyn (1999)
Linenthal, Edward Tabor, Sacred Ground: Americans and Their Battlefields (1993)
Material Concerning the erection of historical memorials commemorating the 400 Maryland Soldiers, 1987-1916
(Brooklyn Historical Society)
Parry, William, Life at the Old Stone House: A History of a Farm and its Occupants (2000)
Purcell, Sarah J., Sealed with Blood: War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America (2002)
Rainey, Reuben M., "The Memory of War: Reflections on Battlefield Preservation" in The Yearbook of Landscape
Architecture: Historic Preservation, ed. Richard L. Austin et al. (1983)
Richman, Jeffrey I., Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery (1998)
Schecter, Barnet, The Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of the American Revolution (2002).
Stevenson, Charles G. and Irene H. Wilson, The Battle of Long Island ("The Battle of Brooklyn"), 1975
Wilder, Craig Steven, A Covenant with Color: Race and the History of Brooklyn (1994)
Forthcoming:
Burrows, Edwin G., Slavery and Freedom in Revolutionary Brooklyn
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