The Revolutionary War in Georgia:
Selected Bibliography of Georgia Room Holdings
Users should note that this is not a complete bibliography of all materials in the UGA Libraries pertaining to this subject. For more information, please try searching the GIL Catalog and GALILEO, especially databases such as JSTOR, America: History and Life, and Web of Science for other articles on the Revolutionary War in Georgia.
ONLINE RESOURCES
"Revolutionary War in Georgia."New Georgia Encyclopedia.
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2709&sug=y
See also:
Battle of Kettle Creek, Thomas Brown, Archibald Campbell, Elijah Clarke, Button Gwinnett, Nancy Hart, Stephen Heard, Lachlan McIntosh, Slavery in Revolutionary Georgia
VERTICAL FILES
Biography:
Notable individuals involved in the Revolution in Georgia include:
Gov. Archibald Bulloch (1776-1777), Elijah Clarke, John Dooly, Gov. Samuel Elbert, Nathanael Greene, Button Gwinnett (2 folders), Joseph Habersham, Lyman Hall, Nancy Hart, John Houston, Gov. James Jackson (1798-1801), William Jasper, Benjamin Lincoln, General Lachlan McIntosh, John Maitland, Gov. John Milledge (1802-1806), Count Casimir Pulaski, Gov. George Walton (1779-1780, 1789-1790), General Anthony Wayne, Gov. James Wright (1760-1776).
Cities and Counties
Augusta - Historic Buildings (3 folders), Savannah - History (4), Wilkes County (4)
BIOGRAPHIES
Cashin, Edward J. The King's Ranger: Thomas Brown and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989.
E278 .B862 C37 1989
Coleman, Kenneth. Governor James Wright in Georgia, 1760-1782. Atlanta: Georgia Commission for the National Bicentennial Celebration and Georgia Department of Education, 1975.
F290 .C5550
Copeland, Edna Arnold. Nancy Hart, The War Woman. Elberton, Ga., 1950.
E207 .H326 C7
Hall, James William. Lyman Hall, Georgia Patriot. Savannah: Pigeonhole Press, 1959.
E263 .G3 H22
Hayes, Louise Frederick. Hero of Hornet's Nest: A Biography of Elijah Clark, 1733 to 1799. New York: Hobson Book Press, 1946.
E207 .C597h
Jackson, Harvey H. Lachlan McIntosh and the Politics of Revolutionary Georgia. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1979.
E207 .M13 J32
Stegeman, John F. and Janet A. Stegeman. Caty: A Biography of Catharine Littlefield Greene. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985.
E207 .G9 S73 1985
OTHER SOURCES
Bridges, Edwin C. Georgia's Signers and the Declaration of Independence. Atlanta: Cherokee Pub. Co., 1981.
E221 .G460
Brown, Frances Fort. Georgia in the Revolution; Manners, Customs and Conditions. Washington: American Monthly Magazine, 1903.
F290 .B877g
Campbell, Sir Archibald. Journal of an Expedition Against the Rebels of Georgia in North America Under the Orders of Archibald Campbell, Esquire, Lieut. Colol. of His Majesty's 71st Regimt., 1778. Darien, Ga.: Ashantilly Press, 1981.
E230.5 .G3 C20
Cashin, Edward J., Jr. and Heard Robertson. Augusta and the American Revolution: Events in the Georgia Back Country, 1773-1783. Darien, Ga.: Ashantilly Press, 1975.
F294 .A9 C37
Chambers, Gordon W. Georgia's Ratification of the Constitution. Augusta: United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission of Augusta, Georgia Society Colonial Dames of America, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1938.
JK161 .G4 C470 1938.
Coleman, Kenneth. The American Revolution in Georgia, 1763-1789. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1958.
LXK23 .C692a 1958
Coleman, Kenneth. A History of Georgia. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1977.
F286 .H58
Daniel, Marjorie Louise. The Revolutionary Movement in Georgia, 1763-1777. Chicago, 1935.
E263 .G3 D185
Davis, Robert Scott. Kettle Creek Battle and Battlefield: A Commemoration Booklet on the 200th Anniversary of the Battle of Kettle Creek, Wilkes County, Georgia. Washington, Ga.: Wilkes Publishing Co., 1978.
E241 .K48 D383
Davis, Robert Scott, Jr. Thomas Ansley and the American Revolution in Georgia. Red Springs, N.C.: Ansley Reunion Press, 1981.
F290 .A63 D380
Davis, Robert Scott, Jr. Georgians in the Revolution: At Kettle Creek (Wilkes Co.) and Burke. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1986.
F290 .D3850 1986
Downs, Charles. Revolutionary Background, 1763-1775. Atlanta: Georgia Commission for the National Bicentennial Celebration and Georgia Department of Education, 1974.
F290 .D670
Gurr, G. Stephen. Military History, 1776-1782. Atlanta: Georgia Commission for the National Bicentennial Celebration and Georgia Department of Education, 1974.
F290 .G80
Hornsby, Alton Jr. The Negro in Revolutionary Georgia. Atlanta: Georgia Commission for the National Bicentennial Celebration and Georgia Department of Education, 1977.
F290 .H5850
Hoffman, Ronald, Thad W. Tate, and Peter J. Albert, eds. An Uncivil War: The Southern Backcountry During the American Revolution. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1985.
E230.5 .S7 U52 1985
Hough, Franklin Benjamin. The Siege of Savannah, by the Combined American and French Forces, Under the Command of Gen. Lincoln and the Count d'Estaing, in the Autumn of 1779. Albany: J. Munsell, 1866.
E241 .S26 H8
Johnson, James Michael. "Not a Single Soldier in the Province": The Military Establishment of Georgia and the Coming of the American Revolution. M.A. thesis, Duke University, 1980.
F289 .J590
Johnson, James M. Militiamen, Rangers, and Redcoats: The Military in Georgia, 1754-1776. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1992.
F289 .J683 1992
Johnston, Elizabeth Lichtenstein. Recollections of a Georgia Loyalist by Elizabeth Lichtenstein Johnston, Written in 1836; Edited by Rev. Arthur Wentworth Eaton. New York: M.F. Mansfield & Company, 1901.
E278 .J72 A3 1901
Kennedy, Benjamin. Muskets, Cannon Balls & Bombs; Nine Narratives of the Siege of Savannah in 1779. Savannah: Beehive Press, 1974.
E241 .S26 K46
Killion, Ronald G. and Charles T. Waller. Georgia and the Revolution. Atlanta: Cherokee Pub. Co., 1975.
E263 .G3 K54
Kozy, Charlene Johnson. A History of the Georgia Loyalists and the Plantation Period in the Turks and Caicos Islands. Ph.D. diss., Middle Tennessee State University, 1983.
E277 .K680 1983a
McCall, Hugh. The History of Georgia, Containing Brief Sketches of the Most Remarkable Events up to the Present Day, 1784. Atlanta: Cherokee Pub. Co., 1969.
F286 .M15 1969
McIlvaine, Paul. The Dead Town of Sunbury, Georgia. Hendersonville, 1971.
F294 .S9 M4
Miller, Randall M. "A Warm & Zealous Spirit": John J. Zubly and the American Revolution: A Selection of His Writings. Macon: Mercer University Press, 1982.
E203 .Z8 1982
Mills, Frederick V. Social Change in Revolutionary Georgia, 1775-1789. Atlanta: Georgia Commission for the National Bicentennial Celebration, 1978.
F290 .M650
Mitchell, Robert Gary. Loyalist Georgia. M.A. thesis, Tulane University, 1964.
E277 .M5
The Revolutionary Records of the State of Georgia v. 1-3. Atlanta: The Franklin-Turner Company, 1908.
E263 .G3 R454
Robertson, Heard. Loyalism in Revolutionary Georgia. Atlanta: Georgia Commission for the National Bicentennial Celebration, 1978.
E277 .R60
Searcy, Martha Condray. The Georgia-Florida Contest in the American Revolution, 1776-1778. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1985.
F319 .S2 S44 1985
Smith, Gordon Burns. Morningstars of Liberty: The Revolutionary War in Georgia, 1775-1783. Milledgeville: Boyd Pub., 2006.
E263 .G3 S65 2006
Standard, Janet Harvill. The Battle of Kettle Creek: A Turning Point of the American Revolution in the South. Washington, Ga.: Wilkes Pub. Co., 1973.
E230.5 .S7 S740
Storm Over Savannah: The Story of Count d'Estaing and the Siege of the Town in 1779. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1951.
E235 .L419s
Sublett, Roger Harley. The Georgia Whigs in the Revolutionary Crisis, 1763-1779. M.A. thesis, Tulane University, 1978.
F289 .S90
Warren, Mary Bondurant. Revolutionary Memoirs and Muster Rolls. Athens, Ga.: Heritage Papers, 1994.
E203 .R48 1994
Wood, Betty. Gender, Race, and Rank in a Revolutionary Age: The Georgia Lowcountry, 1750-1820. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000.
HQ1438 .G4 W66 2000
UGA THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
Theses and dissertations are available in the Georgia Room, but require prior notice of interest in order to retrieve from the repository, and cannot be checked out.
Crout, Robert Rhodes. The Diplomacy of Trade: The Influence of Commercial Considerations on French Involvement in the Anglo-American War of Independence, 1775-1778. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1977.
LXC15 1977 .C951
Jackson, Harvey H. General Lachlan McIntosh, 1727-1806: A Biography. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1973.
LXC16 1973 .J2
Scott, John Thomas. "On God's Side": The Bible as a Source of Political Guidance and Argumentation in American Revolutionary Pamphlets, 1765-76. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1986.
LXC15 1986 .S427
Sowell, Mary. A Social and Economic History of Savannah, Georgia, during the Revolutionary War. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1952.
LXC15 1952 .S65
ARTICLES
Articles in journals not available in the Georgia Room can be accessed online through GALILEO and JSTOR using the Georgia Room computer workstations.
Cashin, Edward W. "The Trembling Land: Covert Activities in the Georgia Backcountry during the American Revolution." Proceedings and Papers of the Georgia Association of Historians (1982): 31-30.
D1 .G63a
Chandler, Ray. "The Legend of Nancy Hart." North Georgia Journal (1999): 22-26.
Davis, Robert S., Jr. "The Battle of the Riceboats: British Views of Georgia's First Battle of the American Revolution." Proceedings and Papers of the Georgia Association of Historians (1983): 111-122.
D1 .G63a
Davis, Robert S., Jr. "The Last Colonial Enthusiast: Captain William Manson in Revolutionary Georgia." Atlanta Historical Journal 28 (1984): 23-38.
F294 .A8 A881
Lambert, Robert S. "The Confiscation of Loyalist Property in Georgia, 1782-1786." The William and Mary Quarterly 20 (1963): 80-94.
Georgia Historical Quarterly: F281 .G352
Ashmore, Otis and C.H. Olmstead. "The Battles of Kettle Creek and Brier Creek." Georgia Historical Quarterly 10 (1926): 85-125.
Braddock, J.G., Sr. "The Plight of a Georgia Loyalist: William Lyford, Jr." Georgia Historical Quarterly 91 (2007): 247-265.
Cashin, Edward J. "'The Famous Colonel Wells': Factionalism in Revolutionary Georgia." Georgia Historical Quarterly 58 (1974): 137-156.
Cashin, Edward J., Jr. "George Walton and the Forged Letter." Georgia Historical Quarterly 62 (1978): 133-145.
Cashin, Edward J., Jr. "Nathanael Greene's Campaign for Georgia in 1781." Georgia Historical Quarterly 61 (1977): 43-58.
Cole, Richard C. "The Siege of Savannah and the British Press, 1779-1780." Georgia Historical Quarterly 65 (1981): 189-202.
Coulter, E. Merton. "Nancy Hart, Georgia Heroine of the Revolution: The Story of the Growth of a Tradition." Georgia Historical Quarterly 39 (1955): 118-151.
Cox, William E. "Brigadier-General John Ashe's Defeat at the Battle of Brier Creek." Georgia Historical Quarterly 57 (1973): 295-302.
Crout, Robert Rhodes. "Pierre-Emmanuel de la Plaigne and Georgia's Quest for French Aid during the War of Independence." Georgia Historical Quarterly 60 (1976): 176-184.
Davis, Harold E. "The Scissors Thesis, or, Frustrated Expectations as a Cause of the Revolution in Georgia." Georgia Historical Quarterly 61 (1977): 246-257.
Davis, Robert, Jr. "A Georgia Loyalist's Perspective on the American Revolution: The Letters of Dr. Thomas Taylor, 1776-1782." Georgia Historical Quarterly 81 (1997): 118-138.
Davis, Robert S., Jr. "New Research Materials on the American Revolution in Georgia." Georgia Historical Quarterly 65 (1981): 316-322.
Ellefson, C. Ashley. "James Habersham and Georgia Loyalism, 1764-1755." Georgia Historical Quarterly 44 (1960): 359-380.
Foster, William O. "James Jackson and the American Revolution." Georgia Historical Quarterly 31 (1947): 249-281.
Heidler, David S. "The American Defeat at Briar Creek, 3 March 1779." Georgia Historical Quarterly 66 (1982): 317-331.
Jackson, Harvey H. "The Battle of the Riceboats: Georgia Joins the Revolution." Georgia Historical Quarterly 58 (1974): 229-243.
Jackson, Harvey H. "Consensus and Conflict: Factional Politics in Revolutionary Georgia." Georgia Historical Quarterly 59 (1975): 388-401.
Lambert, Frank. "'Father Against Son, Son Against Father': The Habershams of Georgia and the American Revolution." Georgia Historical Quarterly 84 (2000): 1-28.
Lamplugh, George R. "'To Check and Discourage the Wicked and Designing': John Wereat and the Revolution in Georgia." Georgia Historical Quarterly 61 (1977): 295-307.
Lawrence, Alexander A. "General Lachlan McIntosh and His Suspension From Continental Command During the Revolution." Georgia Historical Quarterly 38 (1954): 101-141.
Marsh, Ben. "Women and the American Revolution in Georgia." Georgia Historical Quarterly 88 (2004): 157-178.
Mitchell, Robert G. "The Losses and Compensations of Georgia Loyalists." Georgia Historical Quarterly 68 (1984): 233-243.
Olson, Gary D. "Thomas Brown, Loyalist Partisan, and the Revolutionary War in Georgia." Georgia Historical Quarterly 54 (1970): 1-19, 183-208.
Perkins, Eunice Ross. "The Progress of the Revolution in Georgia." Georgia Historical Quarterly 17 (1933): 259-275.
Robertson, Heard. "The Second British Occupation of Augusta." Georgia Historical Quarterly 58 (1974): 422-446.
Searcy, Martha Condray. "1779: The First Year of the British Occupation in Georgia." Georgia Historical Quarterly 67 (1983): 168-188.
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