Henry Phelps Johnston

Henry Phelps Johnston (1842–1923) was an American historian of the Revolutionary War. Born at Trebizond on the Black Sea to American missionary parents, he graduated from Yale in 1862, served in the Union army and from 1883 to 1916 was professor of history at the College of the City of New York. His books, built from documents gathered from the descendants of officers, include The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn, The Yorktown Campaign and the Surrender of Cornwallis, The Battle of Harlem Heights and Nathan Hale, 1776, and he edited the correspondence of John Jay in four volumes.