during the Revolutionary War numbered fewer than three million. At his retirement, Peckham expressed his great enthusiasm for the Clements library, claiming and truly believing that it was the best place anywhere to acquire manuscripts and other primary sources on early American history. Legacy Peckham died on July 6, 1995 at the age of 84 in Hendersonville, where he had lived since his 1977 retirement. He was survived by his wife, son, daughter, and three grandchildren. Peckham was the first historian to publish the Revolutionary War Journals of Henry Dearborn, 1775–1783 in 1939, a publication that includes the six journals written by Henry Dearborn, an officer in the American Revolution who was involved in several major campaigns, and who later became Secretary of War under President Thomas Jefferson. The William Clements Library offers several research fellowships ever year. In honor of Howard Peckham, the library offers the Howard H. Peckham Fellowship on Revolutionary America, a $10,000 annual endowment for qualifying scholars. It is said that Peckham is remembered by his colleagues and the many scholars who came to the Clements Library as graduate students, as a kind and giving man with a courteous manner. Works Peckham wrote 21 books on early American history together with a wide assortment of articles and pamphlets. His works were aimed at the general reader; however, they were based upon solid archival research. His 1947 publication, Pontiac and the Indian Uprising, the product of meticulous scholarship, is widely acclaimed as his finest book. Peckham produced his first major work in 1939. His works include: Revolutionary War Journals of Henry Dearborn, 1775–1783, (1939, reprint, 2009) British secret writing in the revolution, 19?? The papers of General Josiah Harmar, 1937 A Brief History of Indiana, 1946 Pontiac and the Indian Uprising, 1947 Pontiac's Siege of Detroit, 1951 Captured by Indians: True Tales of Pioneer Survivors, 1954 The War for Independence: A Military History, 1958 Treason of the Blackest Dye, 1958 Memoirs of the life of John Adlum in the Revolutionary War, 1968 Narratives of Colonial America, 1704–1765, 1971 The Toll of Independence, 1974, Campaigns of the American Revolution: an atlas of manuscript maps, 1976 The Declaration of Independence: Two Essays, 1976 Indiana: A Bicentennial History, 1978 The Journals and Indian Paintings of George Winter, 1837–1839, (reprint, 2013) The Colonial Wars, 1965 William Henry Harrison: Young Tippecanoe, The War for Independence a Military History, 1975 Lexington to Fallen