"Johann Michael Lindenmuth has left us one of the better day-to-day journals of the French & Indian War as well as a brief journal of his service in the Revolutionary War...When Lindenmuth was discharged in December 1759, he had fought through a multitude of the battles, skirmishes, and ambushes in western Pennsylvania. In a laconic, direct, and simple style he tells of what happened, who did it, and why. Amid the tales of scalping, looting, murder, mayhem, and of boredom, fatigue, huger, and desparir, Lindemuth also tells us of his family and friends, his ancestors, and his children and grandchildren." [from the back cover]
Introduction /Beverly Manbeck--Lebanon County in the 1750's /Beverly Manbeck--250th anniversary of difficult colonial days, Fort Swatara in the French and Indian War/Bruce D. Bomberger--The Journal of Lieut. Philip Marzloff at Ft. Swatara /Ralph S. Shay--Early settlers in the "Hohl"/Alice Behney Spayd--The Paxton Boys/James A. Dibert.
Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center,
Date of Publication
c2005.
Physical Description
ix, 108 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
An expedition to save New France -- A people between -- The storm rising in the West -- The great warpaths -- The backcountry war -- The fight for Canada -- The world on fire -- First rebels -- The triumph of Britannia? -- Canadians.
Transcribed by Brandon Rapp, intern, Millersville University, February to April 205.
Original housed in MG-98, The Revolutionary War Collection, Folder 11.
In partial fulfillment of the requirements of History 352 : Provincial and Revolutionary America at Millersville University.
"The Orderly Book, kept by Lt. Col. Adam Hubley, Jr., is an account of the 11th Pennsylvania's day to day struggle during the Sullivan Campaign of the American War for Independence, July to October 1779." (Introduction)
