Gary Ecelbarger, Author at Journal of the American Revolution

Gary Ecelbarger

Gary Ecelbarger has written seven books, co-written three others and is also the author of two dozen essays, journal and magazine articles about past events and personalities in American history. He claims ten direct-line ancestors who served as Patriot soldiers in the American Revolution. Born and raised in Western NY, ten miles upriver from Niagara Falls, Ecelbarger obtained his M.S. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has lived in Virginia for over twenty years with his wife and three children. He is currently writing a single-year campaign biography of George Washington.

Battles, Letters and Correspondence, People, The War Years (1775-1783) March 11, 2021 March 8, 2021

Gary Ecelbarger

Clement Biddle Partially Clears the “Battle of the Clouds”

The Feint That Never Happened: Unheralded Turning Point of the Philadelphia Campaign

George Washington’s 1777 Wilmington, Delaware, Headquarters: Insights to an Unmarked Site

Washington’s Head of Elk Reconnaissance: A New Letter (and and Old Receipt)

Aggressive-Minded Gamblers: Washington, Howe, and the Days Between Battles, September 12–16, 1777

Shifting American Indian Policy during the Articles of Confederation Era

The 2nd Connecticut Regiment at Edge Hill

Showdown Over a Schooner: The Battle of East Guilford, the Final Engagement in Connecticut