Solid and well-meant advice, thank you one and all (and Lesser's Sinews of
Independence certainly leapt to mind).  That said, by way of clarification,
what I'm hoping to find is reliable scholarship that might supply the blanks
in sentences such as:

The state of ____ supplied ____ soldiers to the Continental army in the year
17___.....
OR                                                               between the
years 17___ and 17___ .

OR variants of that sort.

From conversations with a few historians, I take it that these kinds of
big-picture-context studies may not exist, at least for Virginia militiamen
and continentals.....
But once again, thank you.

Jon Kukla
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On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Jon Kukla <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I'm looking for a reliable book/ article with accurate estimates of the
> numbers of Virginia soldiers involved in Revolutionary War units serving
> OUTSIDE the Commonwealth in northern or southern theaters. . . .  Anecdotal
> evidence suggests a strong presence of Virginians joined Washington, and
> clearly Gov Henry devoted a lot of energy 1776-79 to recruitment and
> supplies, etc.
>    Have looked at a lot of scholarship - Higginbotham, Lesser, Shy, Gruber,
> Selby, etc. and a quite a bit in JSTOR (though the search strategy is
> challenging) - but haven't yet found numbers that inspire confidence.
> Welcome suggestions of books / articles / good dissertations . . .
>    Thank you
>
>
>
> Jon Kukla
> ________________
> www.JonKukla.com <http://www.jonkukla.com/>
>
>

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