1893 Officers of the Continental Army, 1st ed

Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution.

April 1775 to 1783 Revolutionary War

In July 1892, Congress provided for the relocation of revolutionary records residing in the Treasury and Interior Departments to be transferred to the War Department for preservation and indexing, and in 1913 new legislation directed the Secretary of War to collect or copy "the scattered military records of the Revolutionary War," including those of State troops, etc.

Under those acts, many revolutionary records were transferred to the War Department, and other records and documents not in the possession of the Government were loaned to the Department to be copied and returned.

As a result, the Government now possesses a fair collection of the Army records of the Revolutionary War.

This standard reference work on the officers of the Revolutionary War contains an alphabetically arranged list, with service records, of 14,000 officers of the Continental Army, including many officers of the militia and state troops who served during the Revolution.

The information includes rank, dates of service, when and where wounded, taken prisoner, exchanged, killed, etc., with the name of the state in which service was rendered and designation of company and command.

Since much of the data is not available from official records, other reliable sources of information were consulted, data was added therefrom to complete the service record of each officer.

Mr. Heitman, the compiler, examined all the records then available in the several executive departments in Washington and supplemented that data with additional information from other sources, such as documents published by the Government as well as those printed by States and individuals.

 This work is now considered the standard reference of officers serving in the Revolutionary War.

It consists of an alphabetical listing of the individual officers, their rank, dates of service, events (wounded, taken prisoner, exchanged, or killed), the command in which they served, and the state in which the service was rendered.

It also provides "A list of French Officers that served with the American Army," as well as a "Chronological List of Battles, Actions, etc.

By F.B. Heitman. Washington, D.C.