Salina B Baker Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Salina B Baker

11-Sep 1777. Brandywine. Near dusk, after John Sullivan’s troops were routed on Birmingham Hill, Nathanael Greene & his 1,200 Virginians rode to the rescue to stop the British advance. Nathanael’s division & two brigadiers under his command moved to both sides of Wilmington - 1/2 https://t.co/liHM1heaPn

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@milhistbuff3 @HistWriters I think you'll enjoy it. It's funny you mentioned yellow fever because the first book I read about the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 was Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson which is a YA book.

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I'm giving my history brain a rest in the evenings & watching "The Haunting of Hill House" on Netflix based on the 1959 horror novel by Shirley Jackson. This was the 1st horror novel I read as a kid; a masterpiece that scared me properly. "Whatever walks there, walks alone." https://t.co/RgujtEsSXR

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5/16 - the 3rd line. They were in overall command of Isaac Huger & Otho Holland Williams. The army had four 6-pound cannon & 100 artillerymen. Nathanael posted 2 on the road between the militia regiments & the other 2 between the VA & DE fronts. William Washington's cavalry https://t.co/T8v9idxp9H

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My photos of the Ring House (rebuilt after a fire in 1930), Washington's headquarters during the Battle of Brandywine and Birmingham Hill where John Sullivan, Lord Alexander Stirling and Adam Stephen desperately tried to hold the line before Cornwallis turned their right flank. https://t.co/pqWYP8vPR6

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Abigail Adams in a letter to her husband John Adams after the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775 regarding Joseph Warren’s death. “The Day: perhaps the decisive day is come on which the fate of America depends. My bursting heart must find vent at my pen. I have just – 1/2 https://t.co/aULKcXpPhv

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@history_dame @lorirech50 @publius57 If you have any interest in the American Revolution in the south, I highly recommend "The Road to Charleston" by John Buchannan. It's intelligently written. Also "The Swamp Fox" about Francis Marion by John Oller.

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02 Sep 1814. Catharine Littlefield Greene Miller, Nathanael Greene’s widow, died at age 59 on Cumberland Island, Georgia. In 1796, 10 years after NG’s death, she married Phineas Miller 10 years her junior and her children’s tutor. George & Martha Washington witnessed their – 1/2 https://t.co/jyU67AjSm1

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12/16 - command over to Colonel James Stewart. Stewart headed for the fleeing 2nd Marylanders & captured 2 cannon. He turned on the 1st MD & they volleyed at the same time. Their colonel, John Gunby lost his mount & was pinned under it. His deputy commander, Colonel John Eager

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As the Continental Army retreated thru NJ to PA in Nov/Dec 1776, Thomas Paine, aide to Nathanael Greene, was with them. During that time and already famous for "Common Sense," he wrote the pamphlet "The Crisis. Number 1" and the line "These are the times that try men's souls." https://t.co/TSV244MoyI

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