Revolutionary War Unit Histories

United States U.S. Military  Revolutionary War  Unit Histories

Knowing the history of your ancestor’s military unit can help you find a place of residence or other family members at the time of enlistment or help you find a death place. The following sources are helpful in identifying Revolutionary War regiments: = Continental Army =
 * Berg, Fred Anderson. . Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 1972. (FHL book 973 M2be.) Provides a brief organizational sketch of each unit in the Continental Army and lists the commanding officers.
 * Wright, Robert K. . Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army, 1983. (FHL book 973 M2wr.) Includes extensive bibliographies, maps, and brief histories of every permanent unit in the Continental Army.

= Related Sources =
 * Joseph Lee Boyle. Fire cake and water : the Connecticut infantry at the Valley Forge encampment. Baltimore, Maryland : Clearfield Company, c1999
 * A brief history of the North Carolina Troops of the Continental establishment, in the War of the Revolution : with a register of officers of the same Philadelphia, Pa. : [s.n., 1896]
 * John B.B. Trussell, Jr. The Pennsylvania line; regimental organization and operations, 1776-1783.Harrisburg, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1977. Digital Book
 * John Blair Linn, William H. Egle, ed.,Pennsylvania in the War of the Revolution, battalions and line, 1775-1783 2 volumes, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania : C.M. Busch, 1896
 * Anthony Walker.  So few the brave : Rhode Island continentals, 1775-1783.Newport, Rhode Island : Seafield Press, 1981. FHL 974.5 M2w
 * E. M. Sanchez-Saavedra, comp. A guide to Virginia military organizations in the American Revolution, 1774-1787.Richmond, Virginia : Virginia State Library, 1978975.5 M2s

= Regimental Histories =
 * Nathan Goold. Col. James Scamman's 30th Regiment of foot, 1775 Massachusetts
 * Nathan Goold.History of Colonel Edmund Phinney's Eighteenth Continental Regiment : twelve months' service in 1776 : with complete muster-rolls of the companies. Massachusetts
 * Nathan Goold, History of Col. James Scamman's 30th Regiment of foot, eight months' service men of 1775 from York County : with a full account of their movements during the Battle of Bunker Hill and complete muster rolls of the companies Portland, Maine : Thurston Print, 1899


 * Frederic Kidder. History of the First New Hampshire regiment in the war of the revolution. Albany : J. Munsell, 1868. Digital Book
 * T. W. Egly, Jr, History of the First New York Regiment, 1775-1783Hampton, New Hampshire : Peter E. Randall, c1981
 * M. Lee Minnis. The First Virginia Regiment of Foot, 1775-1783.Lovettsville, Virginia : Willow Bend Books, c1998

= Orderly Books =
 * George Washington's orderly books, 1775-1780
 * Connecticut State Library, Revolutionary War orderly books of regiments and companies of the Continental Army
 * Orderly book and journals kept by Connecticut men while taking part in the American Revolution, 1775-1778.Hartford, Connecticut : Connecticut Historical Society, 1899 FHL Digital Book
 * New York Historical Society, Early American orderly books, 1748-1817
 * Doyen Salsig ; maps by Burke Hyatt, edited and annotated by, Parole: Quebec; countersign: Ticonderoga : Second New Jersey Regimental orderly book, 1776Rutherford, New Jersey : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c1980 FHL 974.9 M2u
 * Mathew Drury, Orderly book (1780) of the First Brigade of Artillery commanded by Lieut. Colonel Edward Carrington under General Knox, from January 3 to April 7, 1780, at or near Morristown, New Jersey.
 * Almon W. Lauber, prepared for publication, Orderly books of the fourth New York regiment, 1778-1780, the second New York regiment, 1780-1783 by Samuel Tallmadge and others, with diaries of Samuel Tallmadge, 1780-1782 and John Barr, 1779-1782 Albany, New York : University of the State of New York, 1932 FHL Digital Book
 * Lee A. Wallace, ed, The Orderly book of Captain Benjamin Taliaferro : 2d Virginia Detachment, Charleston, South Carolina, 1780 Richmond, Virginia : Virginia State Library, c1980 FHL 975.5 M2o
 * Orderly book of the company of Captain George Stubblefield, Fifth Virginia Regiment:from March 3, 1776 to July 10, 1776, inclusive Richmond : s. n., 1887. FHL