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John R. Maass

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John R. Maass is from Rockbridge County, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley. He received a B.A. in history from Washington and Lee University, a M.A. in US history from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and a Ph.D. in Early American history from the Ohio State University. He was an editor at The Journal of Backcountry Studies, and is historian at the National Museum of the U.S. Army. He also served in the 80th Division of the U.S. Army Reserve. His other publications include: • “’Humanity Mourns Over Such a Site’: The Army’s Disaster at Terre aux Boeufs, 1809,” Army History, Fall 2012 (No. 85). • “Nathanael Greene and the Politics of Moderation, 1781-1783,” in General Nathanael Greene and the American Revolution in the South, James Piecuch and Gregory Massey, Eds., (Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 2012). • “The Benning Revolution,” in A History of Innovation: U.S. Army Adaptation in War and Peace, Jon T. Hoffman, Gen. Ed. (Washington: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 2009). • “Engineers at War,” in Tip of the Spear: US Army Small-Unit Action in Iraq, 2004-2007, Jon T. Hoffman, Gen. Ed. (Washington: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 2009). • “‘Too Grievous for a People to Bear’: Impressment and Conscription in Revolutionary North Carolina,” The Journal of Military History, Vol. 73 #4, October, 2009. • “The Greatest Terror Imaginable: Cornwallis Brings his Campaign to Goochland, 1781,” Goochland County Historical Society Magazine, Vol. 47, October, 2009. • “‘The Cure for All Our Political Calamities’: Archibald Maclaine and the Politics of Moderation in Revolutionary North Carolina,” The North Carolina Historical Review, Vol. LXXXV, July 2008. • “’From Principles of Humanity and Virtue’: Moderation and the Revolutionary Settlement in North Carolina,” Journal of Backcountry Studies, Vol. 2, #2, Autumn 2007. • “A Spirit of Disobedience: Scotch-Irish Disaffection in the Revolutionary War, 1780-1781,” Journal of Scotch-Irish Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, (Fall 2004). • "'This Dangerous Fire': Nathanael Greene, Thomas Jefferson, and the Challenge of the Virginia Militia, 1780-1781," Proceedings of the Ohio Academy of History, 2004. • “All this Poor Province Could Do: North Carolina and the Seven Years War, 1757-1762,” The North Carolina Historical Review, Vol. LXXIX, January 2002.