Author: Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Digital images
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revoluntionary War
Author: Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Digital images
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revoluntionary War
Author: Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Digital images
Languages : en
Pages : 986
Book Description
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revoluntionary War
Author: Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Digital images
Languages : en
Pages : 982
Book Description
Becoming Men of Some Consequence
Author: John A. RuddimanPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813936187
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Young Continental soldiers carried a heavy burden in the American Revolution. Their experiences of coming of age during the upheavals of war provide a novel perspective on the Revolutionary era, eliciting questions of gender, family life, economic goals, and politics. "Going for a soldier" forced young men to confront profound uncertainty, and even coercion, but also offered them novel opportunities. Although the war imposed obligations on youths, military service promised young men in their teens and early twenties alternate paths forward in life. Continental soldiers’ own youthful expectations about respectable manhood and their goals of economic competence and marriage not only ordered their experience of military service; they also shaped the fighting capacities of George Washington’s army and the course of the war. Becoming Men of Some Consequence examines how young soldiers and officers joined the army, their experiences in the ranks, their relationships with civilians, their choices about quitting long-term military service, and their attempts to rejoin the flow of civilian life after the war. The book recovers young soldiers’ perspectives and stories from military records, wartime letters and journals, and postwar memoirs and pension applications, revealing how revolutionary political ideology intertwined with rational calculations and youthful ambitions. Its focus on soldiers as young men offers a new understanding of the Revolutionary War, showing how these soldiers’ generational struggle for their own independence was a profound force within America’s struggle for its independence.
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revoluntionary War
Author: Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Digital images
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Patriots of Color
Author: George QuintalPublisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Describes the significant part played by blacks and Native Americans at the beginning of the American Revolution.
Revolutionary War Records
Author: Gaius Marcus BrumbaughPublisher:
ISBN: 9780806300603
Category : Bounties, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Given in memory of Charles Hudson Edge, Laura James Edge, by Eugene Edge III.
The Continental Army
Author: Robert K. WrightPublisher: Washington, D.C. : Center of Military History, United States Army
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
A narrative analysis of the complex evolution of the Continental Army, with the lineages of the 177 individual units that comprised the Army, and fourteen charts depicting regimental organization.
Veteran Americans
Author: Benjamin CooperPublisher:
ISBN: 9781625343307
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"I may dare to speak, and I intend to speak and write what I think," wrote a New York volunteer serving in the Mexican War in 1848. Such sentiments of resistance and confrontation run throughout the literature produced by veteran Americans in the nineteenth century -- from prisoner-of-war narratives and memoirs to periodicals, adventure pamphlets, and novels. Military men and women were active participants in early American print culture, yet they struggled against civilian prejudice about their character, against shifting collective memories that removed military experience from the nation's self-definition, and against a variety of headwinds in the uneven development of antebellum print culture. In this new literary history of early American veterans, Benjamin Cooper reveals how soldiers and sailors from the Revolutionary War through the Civil War demanded, through their writing, that their value as American citizens and authors be recognized. Relying on an archive of largely understudied veteran authors, Cooper situates their perspective against a civilian monopoly in defining American citizenship and literature that endures to this day.
Almost a Miracle
Author: John E. FerlingPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195382927
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Describes the military history of the American Revolution and the grim realities of the eight-year conflict while offering descriptions of the major engagements on land and sea and the decisions that influenced the course of the war.