Josiah Harmar Papers,William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Randolph Greenfield Adams. University Acquires the Harmar Papers. 1936 [at William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan].
The Harmar Papers from the Clements Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan. [Richard C. Knopf transcribed these papers and a typed copy is available at the Ohio Historical Society in Columbus, Ohio.]
Josiah Harmar Records, 1788-1791. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio Historical Society. [microfilm copy MIC 166, contemporary copy of Harmar’s personal and military finances to account for monies spent and disbursed on supplies and wages at Fort Harmar and Fort Washington in Ohio. Recorded in a series of waste books, journals, and a general ledger, with an alphabetical index to the accounts in the
ledger.]
Josiah Harmar and Lyman Copeland Draper. Draper Manuscripts: Josiah Harmar Papers. 1778.
Josiah Harmar, John Francis Hamtramck, and Gayle Thornbrough. Outpost on the Wabash, 1787-1791; letters of Brigadier General Josiah Harmar and Major John Francis Hamtramck, and other letters and documents selected from the Harmar papers in the William L. Clements Library. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1957.
Josiah Harmar. The Proceedings of a Court of Enquiry: Held at the Special Request of Brigadier General Josiah Harmar: to Investigate His Conduct, As Commanding Officer of the Expedition against the Miami Indians, 1790: the Same Having Been Transmitted by Major General St. Clair, to the Secretary of the United States, for the Department of War. Philadelphia: Printed by John Fenno, 1791.
General Josiah Harmer's Papers and Journal: Including an Account of His Retreat from Fort Wayne (Miamitown) in 1790. 1790.
Josiah Harmar. Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800.
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Josiah Harmar. “Letters of General Josiah Harmar and Others.” Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, vol. 7: 413 – 477.
Basil Meek. "General Harmar's Expedition." Ohio Archaelogical and Historical Quarterly. 20: 74-108 (1911).
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John P. Nicholson. Return of the Pennsylvania troops in the Service of the United States: August 7, 1787, Commanded by Josiah Harmar : from the Original Mss., with Notes. Philadelphia: [s.n.], 1887.
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Samuel L. Metcalfe, Daniel Boone, Josiah Harmar, James Wilkinson, Charles Scott, Arthur St. Clair, and Anthony Wayne. A Collection of Some of the Most Interesting Narratives of Indian Warfare in the West: Containing an Account of the Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone, One of the First Settlers of Kentucky, Comprehending the Most Important Occurrences Relative to Its Early History ... to Which Is Added an Account of the Expeditions of Genl's Harmer [Sic], Scott, Wilkinson, St. Clair, & Wayne. Lexington, Kentucky: Printed by William G. Hunt, 1821.
Ebenezer Denny. Military Journal of Major Ebenezer Denny, An Officer in the Revolutionary and Indian Wars. With an Introductory Memoir. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1859. [This jounal extends from May 1, 1781 – May 31, 1795 and includes a selection of letters written by General Josiah Harmar, January 19, 1784 - December 27, 1796]
August William Derleth and John Francis Hamtramck. Vincennes: Portal to the West. The American forts series. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1969.
Howard Henry Peckham. Josiah Harmar and His Indian Expedition. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 1946. [Reprinted from Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly, 55: 227-241 (1946)]
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Randolph G. Adams. “The Harmar Expedition of 1790,” Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly, Columbus, Ohio. 50: 60-62 (1941).
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Otho Winger. “The Indians Who Opposed Harmar.” Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly, Columbus, Ohio. 50: 55 – 59 (1941).
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Richard Walker, Ph.D. Wolf Creek and the Muskingum: Notes on the Settlement of Southeastern Ohio. Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, 1996.
John Parker Huber. General Josiah Harmar's Command: Military Policy in the Old Northwest, 1784-1791. Thesis (Ph. D.), Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan, 1968.
David H. Morris. A Sketch of Gen. Harmar’s Campaign in 1790. Troy, Ohio: Troy Times, January 17, 1840. [Morris writes about the skirmish led by General Josiah Harmar against the Indians in the Ohio Territory, including the line of march taken by the troops, descriptions of the massacres, and mutinous activities of Harmar’s troops.]
William H. Guthman. March to Massacre; A History of the First Seven Years of the United States Army, 1784-1791. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974.
Richard M. Lytle. The Soldiers of America's First Army, 1791. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2004.
James Ripley Jacobs. The Beginning of the United States Army 1783-1812. Cranbury, New Jersey: Scholar’s Bookshelf. 1947, 2006.
Edward M. Coffman. The Old Army: A Portrait of the American Army in Peacetime, 1784-1898. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Elmore Barce. The Land of the Miamis. Fowler, Indiana: Benton Review Shop, 1922.
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William Gardner Bell. Commanding Generals and Chiefs of Staff, 1775-2005: Portraits & Biographical Sketches of the United States Army’s Senior Officer. Washington, D.C: Center of Military History, United States Army, 2005.
Joseph Pritts. Incidents of Border Life Illustrative of the Times and Condition of the First Settlements in Parts of the Middle and Western States: …to Which Are Added Brief Historical Sketches of the War in the North-West, Embracing the Expeditions under Gens. Harmar, St. Clair and Wayne…Compiled From Authentic Sources. Chambersburg, Pennsylvania: J. Pritts, 1839.
Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and Paul N. Haines [map drawn by]. General Anthony Wayne's Campaign against the Indians in the Northwest Territory, 1793-1794: Including the Military Traces of General Josiah Harmar (1790) and General Arthur St. Clair (1791). Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 1944.
James M. Perry. Arrogant Armies: Great Military Disasters and the Generals Behind Them. New York: John Wiley, 1996.
William L. Stone. Life of Joseph Brant--Thayendanegea: Including the Border Wars of the American Revolution and Sketches of the Indian Campaigns of Generals Harmar, St. Clair, and Wayne. And Other Matters Connected with the Indian Relations of the United States and Great Britain, from the Peace of 1783 to the Indian Peace of 1795. New York: G. Dearboran and Co, 1838.
Brice, Wallace A. History of Fort Wayne, from the Earliest Known Accounts of This Point, to the Present Period: Embracing an Extended View of the Aboriginal Tribes of the Northwest, Including, More Especially, the Miamies ... with a Sketch of the Life of General Anthony Wayne; Including Also a Lengthy Biography of the Late Hon. Samuel Hanna Together with Short Sketches of Several of the Early Pioneer Settlers of Fort Wayne; Also an Account of the Manufacturing, Mercantile, and Railroad Interests of Fort Wayne and Vicinity. Fort Wayne, Indiana: D.W. Jones & Son, Printers, 1868.
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Conrad E. Harvey. An Army Without Doctrine: the Evolution of US Army Tactics in the Absence of Doctrine, 1779 to 1847, Thesis (M. of Military Art and Science). Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: US Army Command and General Staff College, 2007.
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William L. Otten. Frontier Major: (1783 - 1791). Colonel J. F. Hamtramck: his life and times, vol. 2. Port Aransas, Texas: Otten, 2003.
"Josiah Harmar". American National Biography. 9 (1999).
Fort Harmar website developed by Millie Covey Fry, Columbus, Ohio, 2009. This website will be updated periodically. Special thanks to Richard Walker, Ernest Thode, Richard Lytle, and Gary Williams for their historical expertise and to Scott Britton for his technical expertise. |