topic:"Prisoners of war" found 23 records - Research Collections

American prisoners of the Revolution

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Author: Dandridge, Danske.

Date of Publication: 1994

Call Number: 929.31 D178

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Responsibility: by Danske Dandridge

Author: Dandridge, Danske.

Place of Publication: Baltimore

Publisher: Clearfield Co.

Date of Publication: 1994

Physical Description: ix, 504 p. 21 cm.

Subjects: Revolution, 1775-1783; Prisoners of war - United States.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929.31 D178

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A Christmas reminder : being the names of about eight thousand persons, a small portion of the number confined on board the British prison ships during the war of the Revolution

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Corporate Author: Society of Old Brooklynites (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)

Date of Publication: 1888.

Call Number: 973.371 B872

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Responsibility: with the compliments of the Society of Old Brooklynites.

Corporate Author: Society of Old Brooklynites (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)

Place of Publication: Brooklyn, N.Y

Publisher: Eagle print.,

Date of Publication: 1888.

Physical Description: 61 p. ; 23 cm.

Subjects: Jersey (Prison-ship); Great Britain. - Royal Navy - Prisons.; Prison Ship Martyrs Monument (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.); Prison hulks - New York (State) - New York.; Prisoners of war - United States.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Prisoners and prisons.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.371 B872

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A composite list of German prisoners of war held by the Americans, 1779-1782

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Author: Schwalm, Mark A.

Date of Publication: 1981.

Call Number: 905.748 JSHA v.2, no.1

Responsibility: by Mark A. Schwalm.

Author: Schwalm, Mark A.

Date of Publication: 1981.

Physical Description: p.4-15.

Notes: In: Journal of the Johannes Schwalm Historical Association, v.2 no.1 (1981)

Subjects: Prisoners of war; Hessian mercenaries.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Participation, German.; Prisoners and prison, German - Registers.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 905.748 JSHA v.2, no.1

Dangerous guests : enemy captives and revolutionary communities during the War for Independence

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Author: Miller, Ken,

Date of Publication: 2014.

Call Number: 973.322 M648

Responsibility: Ken Miller.

ISBN: 9780801450556 (cloth : alk. paper); 0801450551 (cloth : alk. paper)

Author: Miller, Ken,

Place of Publication: Ithaca

Publisher: Cornell University Press,

Date of Publication: 2014.

Physical Description: ix, 247 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes: Autographed by the author after his presentation of 25 September 2014.; Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Prologue : a community at war -- "A colony of aliens" : diversity, politics, and war in pre-revolutionary Lancaster, Pennsylvania -- "Divided we must inevitably fall" : war comes to Lancaster -- "A dangerous set of people" : British captives and the making of revolutionary identity -- "'Tis Britain alone that is our enemy" : German captives and the making of American identity -- "Enemies of our peace" : captives, the disaffected, and the refinement of American patriotism -- "The country is full of prisoners of war" : nationalism, resistance, and assimilation -- Epilogue : the empty barracks.

Summary: "As the Americans' principal site for incarcerating enemy prisoners of war, Lancaster stood at the nexus of two vastly different revolutionary worlds: one national, the other intensely local. Captives came under the control of local officials loosely supervised by state and national authorities. Concentrating the prisoners in the heart of their communities brought the revolutionaries' enemies to their doorstep, with residents now facing a daily war at home.Many prisoners openly defied their hosts, fleeing, plotting, and rebelling, often with the clandestine support of local loyalists... The challenge of creating an autonomous national identity in the newly emerging United States was nowhere more evident than in Lancaster, where the establishment of a detention camp served as a flashpoint for new conflict in a community already unsettled by stark ethnic, linguistic, and religious differences. Many Lancaster residents soon sympathized with the Hessians detained in their town while the loyalist population considered the British detainees to be the true patriots of the war. Miller demonstrates that in Lancaster, the notably local character of the war reinforced not only preoccupations with internal security but also novel commitments to cause and country." [from Amazon.com]

Subjects: Yeates, Jasper, - 1745-1817.; Shippen, Edward, - 1639-1712 - Correspondence.; Prisoners of war - Pennsylvania - Lancaster; Hessians - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Nationalism - Pennsylvania - Lancaster; Nationalism.; Prisoners of war.; Lancaster (Pa.) - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Prisoners and prisons.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Prisoners and prisons.; Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; United States.; History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.322 M648

A generous and merciful enemy : life for German prisoners of war during the American Revolution

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Author: Krebs, Daniel,

Date of Publication: 2013.

Call Number: 973.371 K92

Responsibility: Daniel Krebs.

ISBN: 9780806143569; 0806143568

Author: Krebs, Daniel,

Place of Publication: Norman

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press,

Date of Publication: 2013.

Physical Description: xv, 376 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series: Campaigns and commanders ; v. 38

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-359) and index.

Contents: German soldiers in British service -- Subsidy treaties -- Recruitment patterns -- Social composition -- Into captivity -- Prisoners of war in western warfare -- Capture and surrender -- Prisoners of war -- The first prisoners of war in revolutionary hands, 1775-1776 -- German prisoners of war, 1776-1778 -- Provisions and exchange, 1778 -- The Convention Army, 1777-1781 -- Continuity and change, 1779-1783 -- Release and return -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Common German soldiers taken prisoner.

Summary: "Some 37,000 soldiers from six German principalities, collectively remembered as Hessians, entered service as British auxiliaries in the American War of Independence. At times, they constituted a third of the British army in North America, and thousands of them were imprisoned by the Americans. Despite the importance of Germans in the British war effort, historians have largely overlooked these men. Drawing on research in German military records and common soldiers' letters and diaries, Daniel Krebs places the prisoners on center stage in A Generous and Merciful Enemy, portraying them as individuals rather than simply as numbers in casualty lists. Setting his account in the context of British and European politics and warfare, Krebs explains the motivations of the German states that provided contract soldiers for the British army. We think of the Hessians as mercenaries, but, as he shows, many were conscripts. Some were new recruits; others, veterans. Some wanted to stay in the New World after the war. Krebs further describes how the Germans were made prisoners, either through capture or surrender, and brings to life their experiences in captivity from New England to Havana, Cuba. Krebs discusses prison conditions in detail, addressing both the American approach to war prisoners and the prisoners' responses to their experience. He assesses American efforts as a "generous and merciful enemy" to use the prisoners as economic, military, and propagandistic assets. In the process, he never loses sight of the impact of imprisonment on the POWs themselves. Adding new dimensions to an important but often neglected topic in military history, Krebs probes the origins of the modern treatment of POWs. An epilogue describes an almost-forgotten 1785 treaty between the United States and Prussia, the first in western legal history to regulate the treatment of prisoners of war."--Publisher's website.

Subjects: German mercenaries; Prisoners of war - United States; Prisoners of war - Germany; Military prisons - United States; Forced labor - United States; Indentured servants - United States; Forced labor.; German mercenaries.; Indentured servants.; Military prisons.; Prisoners of war.; Deutscher Kriegsgefangener.; Nordamerikanischer UnabhÃ¤ngigkeitskrieg.; Tyska legosoldater; Tyska krigsfÃ¥ngar; Nordamerikanska frihetskriget 1775-1783.; FÃ¤ngelser; TvÃ¥ngsarbete; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Prisoners and prisons, German.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Participation, German.; Germany.; United States.; FÃ¶renta staterna.; History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.371 K92

Hessian laborers at Lancaster, Pa., 1777

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Author: Smith, Clifford Neal.

Date of Publication: 1971

Call Number: 905.29 NG v. 59 (1971)

Responsibility: by Clifford Neal Smith.

Author: Smith, Clifford Neal.

Date of Publication: 1971

Physical Description: p. 188.

Notes: National Genealogical Society Quarterly, v., 59 (1971).

Summary: This is a short article that provides the last names of Hessian prisoners who were being paid for work on "public buildings" in Lancaster. No other information about the prisoners or their work is given.

Subjects: Hessians - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Prisoners of war - Germany.; Prisoners of war - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Participation, German.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 905.29 NG v. 59 (1971)

Lancaster Borough : host to British and Hessian prisoners of war, 1775-1784

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Author: Evans, Melvern R.

Date of Publication: 1985

Lancaster Borough: Host to British and Hessian Prisoners of War, 1775-1784 By Melvern Evans, Jr. Like it or not, in 1775 the borough citizens of Lancaster were saddled with the unpopular task of housing and guarding prisoners of war from the Revolution. Whether or not they were properly prepared

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Responsibility: by Melvern Evans, Jr.

Author: Evans, Melvern R.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1985

Physical Description: 144-151 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 89, no. 4

Subjects: Prisoners of war - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Participation, German.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 89, number 4 (1985), p. 144-151Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.89

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Letter

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Collection: General Thomas Welsh Family Papers

Title: Fragment of a letter from Thomas Welsh to Alice Welsh (daughter)

Object ID: MG0828_SeriesD-62_F15

Date Range: No date

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Collection: General Thomas Welsh Family Papers

Title: Fragment of a letter from Thomas Welsh to Alice Welsh (daughter)

Description: Handwritten fragment of a letter from Thomas Welsh to his daughter, Alice. Marked "Evening" at top, most likely page 2 of a letter. Letter includes thoughts about his family; fear of being forgotten by his kids; story of capturing a Rebel soldier at South Mountain and how he identified with that soldier having a similar family situation.

Admin/Biographical History: Thomas Welsh (1824-1863) was a Lancaster County native (born and raised in Columbia), who rose from hardscrabble origins to local fame, first as a Mexican War hero, and then as a brigadier general during the Civil War. He was well known and well respected as a no nonsense officer, for his leadership and gallantry in battle, for his dedication to the service of his country, and for his concern for the welfare of his men. See MG0828 for more biographical information.

Date Range: No date

Creation Date: No date

Creator: Welsh, Thomas, 1824-1863

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 19

Storage Container: Box 0001

People: Evans, Samuel; Fisher, Joseph Washington; Mullen, Henry; Rohrer, Jeremiah; Vache, Elizabeth Young; Welsh, Annie Eunice Young; Welsh, Blanton Charles; Welsh, Effie; Welsh, Lilian; Welsh, Mary Young "Mazie"; Welsh, Thomas; Wike, Henry M.; Wike, Mrs.

Subjects: Georgia; Letters; Personal correspondence; Prisoners of war; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Washington (D.C.)

Search Terms: Battle of South Mountain; Civil War; Correspondence, Personal; Georgia; Letters; Prisoners of war; Washington, DC

Extent: 1 item, 2 pages to scan

Object Name: Letter

Language: English

Condition: Good

Condition Notes: Very good; discoloration on the folds.

Parent Object ID: MG0828_SeriesD-62

Object ID: MG0828_SeriesD-62_F15

Notes: Added to PP 12/26/2020 by HST; Provenance: Passed down through the family, Blanton Charles Welsh to Emilie Benson (Welsh) Wiggin to Nancy Jane (Wiggin) Townsend. Acquired from: Chuck Townsend, Knoxville, Tennessee, 2016/05/15.

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Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: TW-D-62-15

Classification: MG0828

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: Cataloged by Richard C. Wiggin prior to donation.

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Letter

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Collection: George Steinman Papers, Series 2 Documents, Images, Ephemera

Title: Letter from William Augustus Atlee to Gen. Joseph Reed

Object ID: MG0184_S02_F004_It02

Date Range: 1781/06/13

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Collection: George Steinman Papers, Series 2 Documents, Images, Ephemera

Title: Letter from William Augustus Atlee to Gen. Joseph Reed

Description: Letter from William Augustus Atlee to Gen. Joseph Reed regarding the condition of nearly 2,000 British prisoners-of-war (POWs) confined in barracks in Lancaster. There were about 800 prisoners of war stationed at the Lancaster Barracks, many sick with a "putrid fever," when more arrived from Virginia without knowledge of the conditions at Lancaster. Nearly 500 of the newly arrived prisoners-of-war were women and children. Married couples were encamped on the common outside the stockade and some in the old stables. Curbing the illness that was quickly spreading through the barracks and preventing it from spreading throughout Lancaster was the primary concern.

Date Range: 1781/06/13

Creation Date: 13 June 1781

Creator: Atlee, William Augustus, 1735-1793

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 04

Storage Container: Series 02, Box 0001

People: Atlee, William Augustus; Reed, Joseph; Washington, George; Wood, James, II

Subjects: Health; Letters; Prisoners of war; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Prisoners and prisons

Search Terms: Correspondence; Health; Illnesses; Lancaster Barracks; Letters; Prisoners of war; Revolutionary War

Extent: 1 item, 4 pages scanned

Object Name: Letter

Language: English

Object ID: MG0184_S02_F004_It02

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: George Steinman Papers, Series 1 (MG0184_S01) https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/786b3ffc-7908-40de-9362-817467455650; George Steinman Papers, Series 2 (MG0184_S02) https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/6c7e11c6-f3ca-469c-891a-145832196710; Atlee Family Collection (MG0022); Revolutionary War Collection (MG0098)

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Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-184, Series 2

Other Number: MG-184, Series 2, Folder 4, Item 2

Classification: MG0184

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: Added to database 16 September 2023.; Digitization of this document was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # C980002119, 2021-2024.

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American prisoners of the Revolution

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A Christmas reminder : being the names of about eight thousand persons, a small portion of the number confined on board the British prison ships during the war of the Revolution

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1583

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A composite list of German prisoners of war held by the Americans, 1779-1782

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14254

Dangerous guests : enemy captives and revolutionary communities during the War for Independence

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19436

A generous and merciful enemy : life for German prisoners of war during the American Revolution

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20623

Hessian laborers at Lancaster, Pa., 1777

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14392

Lancaster Borough : host to British and Hessian prisoners of war, 1775-1784

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo359

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Letter

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