This is the second of two volumes detailing Pennsylvania's battalions and line during the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783.
Volume 2 contains brief histories, rosters of field and staff officers, and rolls of enlisted Pennsylvanians and their ranks for each of several independent and non-state specific regiments. It also features a lengthy section composed of excerpts from orderly books and diaries of the Pennsylvania line, ranging from 1778 to 1782.
This volume includes the following chapters:
The New Eleventh
The German Regiment
The Corps of...
This is the second of two volumes detailing Pennsylvania's battalions and line during the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783.
Edwin Miller Fogel Miller Fogel William Henry Egle
Proverbs of the Pennsylvania Germans is a follow-up and companion volume to Edwin Miller Fogel's 1915 publication Beliefs and Superstitions of the Pennsylvania Germans. This volume focuses on the proverb in its broadest sense, including adages, aphorisms, and some appropriate idiomatic expressions. This "spontaneous expression of experience," so widely used in the Germanic linguistic tradition, is in Fogel's words "the very bone and sinew of the Pennsylvania German] dialect."
This collection is the result of the author's years of field research in Pennsylvania and...
Proverbs of the Pennsylvania Germans is a follow-up and companion volume to Edwin Miller Fogel's 1915 publication Beliefs and Supersti...
Edwin Miller Fogel Miller Fogel William Henry Egle
Since its publication in 1915, Beliefs and Superstitions of the Pennsylvania Germans has been not only a valuable addition to the catalogue of American folklore but also a vital resource in preserving a linguistic culture and traditions that were already fading from the American consciousness. Edwin Miller Fogel's years of research in both Pennsylvania and Germany led to this collection, the most complete of its time, of more than two thousand Pennsylvania German aphorisms.
This work displays a panorama of beliefs reflecting every aspect of Pennsylvania German life, from...
Since its publication in 1915, Beliefs and Superstitions of the Pennsylvania Germans has been not only a valuable addition to the catalogu...
This is the first of two volumes detailing Pennsylvania's battalions and line during the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783.
Volume 1 contains brief regimental histories, supplemented by letters and diary entries from the leadership, rosters of field and staff officers, and rolls of enlisted men in each company and their ranks.
This volume includes the following chapters:
Col. Wm. Thompson's Battalion of Riflemen
First Pennsylvania Battalion, Col. DeHaas
Second Pennsylvania Battalion, Col. St. Clair
Third Pennsylvania Battalion, Col....
This is the first of two volumes detailing Pennsylvania's battalions and line during the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783.
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, e...
Some Pennsylvania Women During the War of the Revolution, first published in 1898 by the Harrisburg Publishing Company, presents biographical sketches of almost seventy women who supported the American Revolution and the soldiers at Valley Forge, noting their lives, family history, character, and the particulars of their roles in the revolutionary effort, including providing food, clothing, shelter, and support for the patriots. As the author writes in his prefatory note, this book aims to bring to light "the patriotism, sufferings, and self-denials" of the women of the American...
Some Pennsylvania Women During the War of the Revolution, first published in 1898 by the Harrisburg Publishing Company, presents biographi...
