2019:
November
Exciting Project News!
October
The Maryland Line and The Creation of the Society of the Cincinnati
What’s In a Name: Military Ranks
Revisiting the Capture and Escape of the McMillan Brothers
September
What does “Maryland 400” mean?
Where were the Maryland 400 Buried?
August
August 26, 1776: The Day Before
The Second War with Britain: The Legacy of the Maryland 400 in the War of 1812
“Gross Outrage”: An Independence Day Celebration Gone Wrong
July
“Determined to Run the Risk of Being Hanged”: The Enlistment Feud between the Second and Fifth Maryland Regiments
“Not So Genteel” Behavior: Enlistment Issues Involving the Maryland 400
“Unfit for Duty”: Medicine and Illness in the Revolutionary War
The Fourth of July, 1776
June
Rebel Quakers: The Struggle Between Faith and Liberty
A Tale of Two Jeffers: How Pension Information Differentiates Revolutionary War Soldiers
The Nailor Connection: Descendant of Maryland 400 Veterans to Visit
James’s Introduction
Jillian’s Introduction
March
Maryland’s Senate Honors the Maryland 400
February
Happy Birthday Mordecai Gist
2018:
December
“The Ides of January:” Facing the New Year in the Continental Army
The amazing story of Charles Thompson, who “agreed to enlist with the Enemy–and by that Means made his escape”
November
Cassy’s Introduction
The Maryland Line: Why They Fought
October
Project Updates
August
The Mystery of the Maryland 400, Part II
The Mystery of the Maryland 400, Part I
William Smallwood Papers Unveiling
Women in the War: “The Sick Suffered Much for Want of Good Female Nurses”
July
Polearms in the Continental Army
Maryland’s Quakers in the Revolution Podcast
Marching to What Beat, Sir? The Musicians of Washington’s Army
June
Alonzo Chappel and the Romantic Visual Culture of Antebellum America
Elizabeth’s Introduction
May
Women in the War
April
What’s In a Name: Companies, Regiments, and Battalions
March
Enlistment Bounties: Use and Abuse
January
The Case of Thomas Connor, Who Didn’t Die in Battle
2017:
December
We Have Completed the Seventh Company
November
Another Completed Company
October
Becoming “Amply Supplied with Very Good Shoes”
A Pennsylvanian in the Maryland Line?
September
A Hot Cup of Patriotism
Death by Pig
A Veteran Remembers
Happy National Literacy Day! Literacy Rates in Colonial America
Upcoming Maryland 400 Lecture
August
The Battle of Brooklyn in Five Objects: Number 5, The Old Line State Quarter
The Battle of Brooklyn in Five Objects: Number 4, Daniel Bowie’s Will
The Battle of Brooklyn in Five Objects: Number 3, “The New Invented Napsack and Haversack in One”
The Battle of Brooklyn in Five Objects: Number 2, Mordecai Gist’s Portrait
The Battle of Brooklyn in Five Objects: Number 1, William Sands’s Letter
“Gate’s Defeat”: The Battle of Camden
The Maryland 400’s Mutineer
A Completed Company
July
Crime and Punishment in the Continental Army
The Maryland 400 in the News
The Midnight Attack on Stony Point
The Significance of December 10, 1776
June
Military or Jail: The Interesting Case of Private Everit
Exploring the Indexes
“Being Desirous to Settle my Worldly Affairs”: Private George Claypoole’s Will
2016:
November
The Maryland 400’s Veterans
October
A “little groggy”: the deputy sheriff of Baltimore and his “bowl of toddy”
Victory at Yorktown!
Sickened Marylanders and the Philadelphia Bettering House
“The misfortune which ensued”: The defeat at Germantown
September
“Flecking the hedges with red”: Palmer’s Ballad on the Maryland 400
Which Private Smith is the Right Private Smith?
British “masters of the field”: The disaster at Brandywine
Another Company Finished!
August
Persecuted in Revolutionary Baltimore: The Sufferings of Quakers
The 240th Anniversary of the Battle of Brooklyn
The Political Climate of Baltimore in 1776
“Games of Exercise” During the American Revolution
A Short Fight on Hobkirk’s Hill: Surprise, Blame, and Defeat
July
“Anxious of showing my zeal for the love of my Country, I entered myself as a Cadet…”
Project update: A Company Completed!
A “dull place” on the Patapsco: Baltimore and the Marr Brothers
A Young Soldier Prepares to Leave for War
June
“He had never gave them an inch before he found that he had nothing left to keep them off with”
Col. Gaither: Seven years on Georgia’s frontier
A Common Soldier’s Inventory, and His Career
“All and singular the goods, chattels and personal estate of col. Henry Neale”
Col. Barton Lucas: more than a military man
May
Evaluating the Maryland Officers
2015:
August
Battle of Brooklyn Roll of Honor
Upcoming Battle of Brooklyn Commemorations
The story of Walter Brooke Cox in the Continental Army
“Our officers…cared but little, if anything at all, about us.”
July
The Role of the Captain on and off the Battlefield
Lamenting the Death of Major Archibald Anderson
The Infantry Career of a Naval Hero
Maryland Declares Independence
The Summer of Independence Begins
June
Second Lieutenant Thomas Goldsmith and the Battle of White Plains
James Farnandis meets George Washington
The Role of a First Lieutenant During the Revolutionary War
Maryland 400 Presentation
“Winged Messenger of Death”: Captain Edward De Coursey’s Letter to a Friend
May
The Short Life of Capt Daniel Bowie
Defeats and Doubts: The Continental Army in 1776
April
The Court-Martial of Lieutenant Kidd
Men who “could stand cutting”: The Old Maryland Line
Corporal Zachariah Gray’s Last Will and Testament
Sergeant Levin Wilcoxon: Settler of “Westsylvania”
March
“Cain Tuck lands”: Uncovering the Life of Peter Brown
John H. Beanes: The Lone Escaping Lieutenant of Ninth Company
February
Maryland’s African American Troops
Hatch Dent, Jr.: From Prisoner of War to Minister and Teacher
African Americans in the Revolutionary War
A Virginian in the First Maryland Regiment
2014:
August
In Their Own Words, Postscript: The Marylanders Retreat From Brooklyn
Becoming the Maryland 400
The British Diversion
The Marylanders Arrive
“They Must Be Well Watched”
The British Come Ashore
In Their Own Words: An Oral History of the Battle of Brooklyn, Part II
In Their Own Words: An Oral History of the Battle of Brooklyn
A History of Service
Demographics in the First Maryland Regiment
July
So We Meet Again
Brothers in Arms
The Last Will and Testament of Edward Sinclair
Francis Reveley: Insults and Injury
John Brady: Sergeant Turned Fifer
Persistence is Key: Petitions of John Gassaway
Welcome to Finding the Maryland 400
June
David Plunket: A Radical Rebel
The Fate of the Fifth Company
Revolutionary Veterans VI: The Long and Eventful Life of William McMillan
May
Revolutionary Veterans V: Thomas Stockett Brewer of Annapolis
Revolutionary Veterans IV: The Tragic Fate of James Marle
Revolutionary Veterans III: Leonard Watkins, Gearmaker
Revolutionary Veterans II: Levin Frazier, Soldier, Sailor, Land Owner
Revolutionary Veterans I: Mark McPherson, Kentucky Gentleman
The Fates of Revolutionary War Veterans
April
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
Family in Uniform
February
The Forage War and the Battle for New Jersey
William Chaplin: Defector to the British
January
Maryland 400 in the News
The Prisoner and the Privateer
Who Were the Maryland 400?
Winter at Morristown
A Fine Fox Chase: The Battle of Princeton
2013:
December
The Crossing and the Capture
The Road to Trenton
“If I Fall on the Field of Battle”
The Whig Club: Judge and Jury in Baltimore
November
Feeding an Army
Soldiering On
“A Cursed Affair”: The Loss of Fort Washington
An Interactive View of the Maryland 400
October
The Battle of White Plains
Taking Names
The Resurrection of William Sterrett
The Peale Family: Picturing the Maryland Line
The Missing Men
September
The Trial of Lieutenant Steward
“Maryland Troops Bear the Palm”
“The Unhappy Situation”
August
The Rain and the Retreat
Becoming the Maryland 400
The British Diversion
The Marylanders Arrive
“They must be well watched”
The British Come Ashore
Biography of William McMillan, Maryland 400 Soldier
Mordecai Gist: Leading the Maryland 400
June
Alternative Sources: Clothing Records of the Maryland 400
The Dysfunctional Company
Battle Maps of Long Island
Desertion: Scourge of the Army
Effects of the Battle on Capt. Barton Lucas
237 Years Ago
The Story of James Marle
An Anecdote from the Wartime Service of Gassaway Watkins