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5) Compiled service records of soldiers who served in the American Army during the Revolutionary war
Author
Series
War Department collection of Revolutionary War records volume Record group 93
Publisher
National Archives Trust Fund Board
Pub. Date
1976
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Language
English
Description
"The cultural landscape of the Hudson River Valley is crowded with ghosts--the ghosts of Native Americans and Dutch colonists, of Revolutionary War soldiers and spies, of presidents, slaves, priests, and laborers. Possessions asks why this region just outside New York City became the locus for so many ghostly tales, and shows how these hauntings came to operate as a peculiar type of social memory whereby things lost, forgotten, or marginalized returned...