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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781918903321

Autore

Neimeyer Charles Patrick <1954->

Titolo

The Revolutionary War [[electronic resource] /] / Charles P. Neimeyer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn., : Greenwood Press, 2007

ISBN

1-282-40625-6

9786612406256

0-313-02733-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Collana

Greenwood Press "daily life through history" series, , 1080-4749

American soldiers' lives

Disciplina

973.3/4

Soggetti

Soldiers - United States - Social conditions - 18th century

United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-191) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Citizen-soldiers : the army of observation -- Sunshine soldiers : the transition between the army of observation and Washington's new army -- Creating a respectable army -- "The year of the hangman" : 1777 and Continental Army communities -- Daily life in camp -- Morristown and mutiny -- The last years of the war.

Sommario/riassunto

Nearly everyone in the U.S. has studied the Revolutionary War. Too often, however, historians of the Revolution focus on the activity of the army without noticing what was taking place inside the army. Making liberal use of diaries and correspondence by the soldiers and their families, Charles P. Neimeyer tells the stories of the men and women who fought for the young country's independence. Sometimes starting off as rag-tag groups of men shooting off their muskets at geese just for the thrill of the sound, the soldiers became more disciplined and focused. The army recruited a significant numb