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Edited by John Shy. University of Michigan Press, March 15, 1989 (Hardcover, 128 pages).
Benjamin Gilbert had fought through much of the War for Independence, rising to officer’s rank by the time he began keeping a letter book in 1780. His copies of correspondence to relatives, friends, and fellow officers record a personal perspective on the final years of the war, from the victory at Yorktown to the conclusion of hostilities and the disbanding of the Continental Army. Gilbert’s letter book is preserved in the Clements Library and has been edited by distinguished historian John Shy.
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