American Prisoners of the Revolution
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Chapters (57)(click to expand)
- AMERICAN PRISONERS OF THE REVOLUTION
- Dedication
- TO THE MEMORY OF MY GRANDFATHER
- Lieutenant Daniel Bedinger, of Bedford, Virginia “A BOY IN PRISON” AS REPRESENTATIVE OF ALL THAT WAS BRAVEST AND MOST HONORABLE IN THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF THE PATRIOTS OF 1776
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER I. — INTRODUCTORY
- CHAPTER II. — THE RIFLEMEN OF THE REVOLUTION
- CHAPTER III. — NAMES OF SOME OF THE PRISONERS OF 1776
- CHAPTER IV. — THE PRISONS OF NEW YORK—JONATHAN GILLETT
- CHAPTER V. — WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM, THE PROVOST MARSHAL
- CHAPTER VI. — THE CASE OF JABEZ FITCH
- CHAPTER VII. — THE HOSPITAL DOCTOR—A TORY’S ACCOUNT OF NEW YORK IN 1777—ETHAN ALLEN’S
- CHAPTER VIII. — THE ACCOUNT OF ALEXANDER GRAYDON
- CHAPTER IX. — A FOUL PAGE OF ENGLISH HISTORY
- CHAPTER X. — A BOY IN PRISON
- CHAPTER XI. — THE NEWSPAPERS OF THE REVOLUTION
- CHAPTER XII. — THE TRUMBULL PAPERS AND OTHER SOURCES OF INFORMATION
- CHAPTER XIII. — A JOURNAL KEPT IN THE PROVOST
- CHAPTER XIV. — FURTHER TESTIMONY OF CRUELTIES ENDURED BY AMERICAN PRISONERS
- CHAPTER XV. — THE OLD SUGAR HOUSE—TRINTY CHURCHYARD
- CHAPTER XVI. — THE CASE OF JOHN BLATCHFORD
- CHAPTER XVII. — BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND OTHERS ON THE SUBJECT OF AMERICAN PRISONERS
- CHAPTER XVIII. — THE ADVENTURES OF ANDREW SHERBURNE
- CHAPTER XIX. — MORE ABOUT THE ENGLISH PRISONS—MEMOIR OF ELI BICKFORD—CAPTAIN FANNING
- CHAPTER XX. — SOME SOUTHERN NAVAL PRISONERS
- CHAPTER XXI. — EXTRACTS FROM NEWSPAPERS—SOME OF THE PRISON SHIPS—CASE OF CAPTAIN
- CHAPTER XXII. — THE JOURNAL OF DR. ELIAS CORNELIUS—BRITISH PRISONS IN THE SOUTH
- CHAPTER XXIII. — A POET ON A PRISON SHIP
- CHAPTER XXIV. — “THERE WAS A SHIP”
- CHAPTER XXV. — A DESCRIPTION OF THE JERSEY
- CHAPTER XXVI. — THE EXPERIENCE OF EBENEZER FOX. —
- CHAPTER XXVII. — THE EXPERIENCE OF EBENEZER FOX (CONTINUED)
- CHAPTER XXVIII. — THE CASE OF CHRISTOPHER HAWKINS
- CHAPTER XXIX. — TESTIMONY OF PRISONERS ON BOARD THE JERSEY
- CHAPTER XXX. — RECOLLECTIONS OF ANDREW SHERBURNE
- CHAPTER XXXI. — CAPTAIN ROSWELL PALMER
- CHAPTER XXXII. — THE NARRATIVE OF CAPTAIN ALEXANDER COFFIN
- CHAPTER XXXIII. — A WONDERFUL DELIVERANCE
- CHAPTER XXXIV. — THE NARRATIVE OF CAPTAIN DRING
- CHAPTER XXXV. — THE NARRATIVE OF CAPTAIN DRING (CONTINUED)
- CHAPTER XXXVI. — THE INTERMENT OF THE DEAD
- CHAPTER XXXVII. — DAME GRANT AND HER BOAT
- CHAPTER XXXVIII. — THE SUPPLIES FOR THE PRISONERS
- CHAPTER XXXIX. — FOURTH OF JULY ON THE JERSEY
- CHAPTER XL. — AN ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE
- CHAPTER XLI. — THE MEMORIAL TO GENERAL WASHINGTON
- CHAPTER XLII. — THE EXCHANGE
- CHAPTER XLIII. — THE CARTEL—CAPTAIN DRING’S NARRATIVE (CONTINUED)
- CHAPTER XLIV. — CORRESPONDENCE OF WASHINGTON AND OTHERS
- CHAPTER XLV. — GENERAL WASHINGTON AND REAR ADMIRAL DIGBY—COMMISSARIES SPROAT AND
- CHAPTER XLVI. — SOME OF THE PRISONERS ON BOARD THE JERSEY
- CONCLUSION
- APPENDIX A
- LIST OF 8000 MEN WHO WERE PRISONERS ON BOARD THE OLD JERSEY
- APPENDIX B
- APPENDIX C
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
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