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• Yorktown: Climax of the Revolution (National Park Service source book series #1; 1941), ed. by Charles E. Hatch and Thomas M. Pitkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address of President Hoover at the Ceremonies In Commemoration of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia. October 19, 1931. (Washington: GPO, 1931), by Herbert Hoover (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Virginia Campaign and the Blockade and Siege of Yorktown, 1781: Including a Brief Narrative of the French Participation in the Revolution Prior to the Southern Campaign (Washington: GPO, 1931), by Howard Lee Landers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters of Thomas Nelson, Jr., Governor of Virginia (first and only issue of Publications of the Virginia Historical Society, New Series; Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 1874), by Thomas Nelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Sidelight on History: Being the Letters of James McHenry, Aide-de-Camp of the Marquis de Lafayette to Thomas Sim Lee, Governor of Maryland, Written During the Yorktown Campaign, 1781 (1931), by James McHenry, contrib. by Elizabeth Sarah Kite (page images at HathiTrust)

• Peggy Owen at Yorktown (Philadelphia: Penn Pub. Co., 1917), by Lucy Foster Madison, illust. by Henry J. Peck (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• "Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are": An Ethnohistorical Study of the African-American Community on the Lands of the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, 1865-1918 (Williamsburg, VA: William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research, 1992), by Bradley M. McDonald, Kenneth E. Stuck, and Kathleen Joan Bragdon (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Illustrated Historical Sketch of Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown (Petersburg, VA: Franklin Press Co., ca. 1907), by J. Blair Spencer (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Southern Indians in the American Revolution (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1973), by James H. O'Donnell (PDF at Tennessee)
• The Attack on Youngs' House (or Four Corners), February 3, 1780: An Episode of the Neutral Ground (Tarrytown, NY: W. Abbatt, 1926), by William Abbatt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Continental Army (some supplementary material omitted), by Robert K. Wright (HTML at US Army CMH)
• Engineers of Independence: A Documentary History of the Army Engineers in the American Revolution, 1775-1783, by Paul K. Walker (PDF files at army.mil)
• France in the American Revolution, by James Breck Perkins (HTML at americanrevolution.org)
• The Battle of Klock's Field, October 19, 1780, With a Description of the Raid of the Schoharie and Mohawk Valleys by the Tories and Indians under Sir. John Johnson, by Lou D. MacWethy (illustrated HTML at threerivershms.com)
• Colonel John Brown of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the Brave Accuser of Benedict Arnold, by Archibald M. Howe (HTML at threerivershms.com)
• Life of Major General Henry Lee, Commander of Lee's Legion in The Revolutionary War, and Subsequently Governor of Virginia; To Which is Added the Life of General Thomas Sumter of South Carolina (Philadelphia: G.G. Evans, 1859), by Cecil B. Hartley, illust. by G. G. White
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at Lee Family Digital Archive
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Life of General Francis Marion, by M. L. Weems (Gutenberg text)

• Extracts From Letters Written at the Time of the Occupation of Boston by the British, 1775-6 (From the Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, vol. XIII, July, 1876), ed. by William P. Upham
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• My Lady Laughter: A Romance of Boston Town in the Days of the Great Siege (Boston: C. M. Clark, c1904), by Dwight Tilton, illust. by Charles H. Stephens (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Along the Western Brandywine (second edition; West Chester, PA: F. S. Hickman, printer, 1912), by Wilmer W. MacElree (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Blanche of Brandywine, or, September the Eighth to Eleventh, 1777: A Romance of the American Revolution; The Scenes Are Laid on the Battle-Ground of Brandywine (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson, c1876), by George Lippard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bunker Hill: The Story Told in Letters From the Battle Field by British Officers Engaged (Boston: Nichols and Hall, 1875), ed. by Samuel Adams Drake
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Stories About General Warren, In Relation to the Fifth of March Massacre, and the Battle of Bunker Hill (Boston: J. Loring, 1835), by Rebecca Warren Brown (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Boy Spies at the Battle of Bunker Hill: A Story of the Siege of Boston (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1898), by James Otis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle, As She Saw it from the Belfry (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1925), by Oliver Wendell Holmes, illust. by Howard Pyle (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Sun of Saratoga: A Romance of Burgoyne's Surrender (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1897), by Joseph A. Altsheler (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Sun of Saratoga: A Romance of Burgoyne's Surrender (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1916), by Joseph A. Altsheler (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Battle of Camden, South Carolina, August 16, 1780, by Howard Lee Landers (HTML at battleofcamden.org)

• Proceedings at the Centennial Celebration of Concord Fight, April 19, 1875 (page images at MOA)
• The Scene of the Battle, 1775: Historic Grounds Report, Minute Man National Historical Park (cultural resources management study #15; Boston: Division of Cultural Resources, North Atlantic Regional Office, National Park Service, 1985), by Joyce Lee Malcolm
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF at npshistory.com; map at page 77 missing
• The Nineteenth of April, 1775 (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1925), by Harold Murdock (page images at HathiTrust)

• Proceedings at the Centennial Celebration of Concord Fight, April 19, 1875 (page images at MOA)

• A Little Maid of Concord Town: A Romance of the American Revolution, 1775 (Boston: Lothrop Pub. Co., c1900), by Margaret Sidney, illust. by Frank T. Merrill (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Minute Boys of Lexington (Boston: D. Estes and Co., c1898), by Edward Stratemeyer, illust. by A. B. Shute (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Battle of Cooch's Bridge, Delaware, September 3, 1777 (1940), by Edward W. Cooch (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Battle of Cowpens: A Documented Narrative and Troop Movement Maps, by Edwin C. Bearss (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The Cowpens Staff Ride and Battlefield Tour, by John Moncure (PDF at army.mil)
• Historical Statements Concerning the Battle of Kings Mountain and the Battle of the Cowpens, South Carolina (1928), by Army War College (U.S.) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Calendar of the Tennessee and King's Mountain Papers of the Draper Collection of Manuscripts (Madison, WI: State History Society of Wisconsin, 1929), by State Historical Society of Wisconsin, contrib. by Isabel Thompson, Anne King Gregorie, Ruth Hardaker, Edward Earl Bennett, and Lyman Copeland Draper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical Statements Concerning the Battle of Kings Mountain and the Battle of the Cowpens, South Carolina (1928), by Army War College (U.S.) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Scene of the Battle, 1775: Historic Grounds Report, Minute Man National Historical Park (cultural resources management study #15; Boston: Division of Cultural Resources, North Atlantic Regional Office, National Park Service, 1985), by Joyce Lee Malcolm
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF at npshistory.com; map at page 77 missing
• The Nineteenth of April, 1775 (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1925), by Harold Murdock (page images at HathiTrust)

• Orderly Book of Sir John Johnson During the Oriskany Campaign, 1776-1777, by John Johnson, ed. by William L. Stone, contrib. by John Watts De Peyster and Theodorus Bailey Myers (HTML at threerivershms.com)

• The Battle of Klock's Field, October 19, 1780, With a Description of the Raid of the Schoharie and Mohawk Valleys by the Tories and Indians under Sir. John Johnson, by Lou D. MacWethy (illustrated HTML at threerivershms.com)
• Colonel John Brown of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the Brave Accuser of Benedict Arnold, by Archibald M. Howe (HTML at threerivershms.com)

• The Falling Flag: Evacuation Of Richmond, Retreat and Surrender at Appomattox (third edition; New York: E. J. Hale and Son, 1874), by Edward M. Boykin
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at Lee Family Digital Archive
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Richmond National Battlefield Park, Virginia (historical handbook series, #33; 1961), by Joseph P. Cullen
  • illustrated HTML at National Park Service
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Recollections of the Evacuation of Richmond, April 2d, 1865, by John Archibald Campbell (HTML at supremecourthistory.org)

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