Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Christian Castler
MSA SC 3520-17201

Sources:

Archival Sources:

Commissioner of Army Accounts, Army Accounts No. 1, MdHR 1780, p. 22 (MSA S165-1, 1/1/4/12).

Council of Safety, Census of 1776, Residents of Georgetown Hundred, 1776, p. 17, MdHR 4646-2-8 (MSA 961-9, 1/1/4/30).

"Extract of a letter from New York: Account of the battle on Long Island." American Archives S5 V2 107-108.

“General Orders, 30 August 1776,” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified June 29, 2016.

Journal and Correspondence of the Maryland Council of Safety, August 29, 1775 to July 6, 1776. Archives of Maryland Online Vol. 11.

"Letter from Major Gist to the Maryland Council of Safety." American Archives v5:1085.

"Letter from Maryland Council of Safety to Colonel Smallwood: The case of Christian Castler comes under the Seventh Article of War and cannot be punished with death." American Archives v5:1173.

Maryland State Papers, Brown Books, Mordecai Gist to the Maryland Council of Safety, April 26, 1776, MdHR 4610-09, Brown Book 3, p. 9 (MSA S991-3-324, 1/6/5/4).

Maryland State Papers, Revolutionary Papers, Council of Safety to William Smallwood, May 2, 1776, MdHR 6636-3-13 (MSA S 1004-3-206, 1/7/3/26).

Maryland State Papers, Revolutionary Papers, Members of German Regiment, 1780, MdHR 19970-12-24-1 (MSA S997-12, 1/7/3/13).

Published Sources:

Alexander, Arthur. How Maryland Tried to Raise Her Continential Quotas. Maryland Historical Magazine 42, no. 3 (1947). 184-196.

Cox, Caroline . The Continental Army. The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution, ed. Edward G. Gray and Jane Kamensky. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Maurer, Maurer. "Military Justice Under General Washington." Military Affairs 28, no. 1 (Spring 1964): 8-16.

Tacyn, Mark Andrew. "'To The End:' The First Maryland Regiment and the American Revolution." PhD Dissertation, University of Maryland College Park, 1999.

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