The Revolutionary War lives and letters of Lucy and Henry Knox / Phillip Hamilton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806, author.

Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1760-1824, author.

Contributor:

Hamilton, Phillip, 1961- editor.

Standardized Title:

Correspondence. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806--Correspondence.

Knox, Henry.

Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1760-1824--Correspondence.

Knox, Lucy Flucker.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806.

Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1760-1824.

Married people.

Military spouses.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Personal narratives.

United States.

History.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Sources.

Generals--United States--Correspondence.

Generals.

Military spouses--United States--Correspondence.

Married people--United States--Correspondence.

Genre:

Personal narratives.

Sources.

Correspondence.

History.

Records and correspondence.

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

xii, 205 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.

Summary:

In 1774, Boston bookseller Henry Knox married Lucy Waldo Flucker, the daughter of a prominent Tory family. Although Lucy's father was the third-ranking colonial official in Massachusetts, the couple fled British-occupied Boston after the Battles of Lexington and Concord. Knox served in the Continental Army as Washington's artillery commander until the war's end. Like John and Abigail Adams, the Knoxes were often separated during the war and spent much of their time writing to one another. They penned nearly 200 letters, more than half of which are annotated for this volume. This correspondence-which spans the entire war-provides a remarkable window into the couple's marriage. Struggling to cope with a momentous conflict and attempting to preserve their family, the Knoxes negotiated shifts in gender and power relations through their personal and intimate letters. Working together, Henry and Lucy maintained their household and protected their property, raised and educated their children, and adjusted to other dramatic changes within their family, including a total break between Lucy and her Tory relatives. Book jacket.

Contents:

Courtship and marriage (1773-1775)

The excitement of war (April 1775-June 1776)

The perils of war I: the New York/New Jersey campaign of 1776

The perils of war II: the Philadelphia campaign of 1777

Enduring the war (1778-1783)

Afterwards (1784-1824).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781421423456

1421423456

OCLC:

980858459