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"Caroline Cox examines the great gap that existed in the conditions of service of soldiers and officers in the Continental Army. She looks particularly at disparities between soldiers' and officers' living conditions, punishments medical care, burial, and treatment as prisoners of war. Using pension records, memoirs, and contemporary correspondence, Cox illuminates not only the persistence of hierarchy in Revolutionary America but also the ways in which soldiers contested their low status."--BOOK JACKET.
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Military life, Social aspects, Officers, United States, Social conditions, Soldiers, Honor, United States. Continental Army, History, United states, continental army, United states, army, military life, United states, army, history, Soldiers' life, United states, history, revolution, 1775-1783, Military Personnel, Social Class, American Revolution, AttitudePlaces
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A proper sense of honor: service and sacrifice in George Washington's army
2004, University of North Carolina Press
in English
080782884X 9780807828847
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Take the length of every soldier : servants, sons, and gentlemen of the Continental Army
A proper sense of honor : educating officers and soldiers
Necessary and excusable measures : the policy and practice of punishment
Oh the groans of the sick : health, status, and military medicine
The last duty to the dead : death and burial in the Continental Army
Onspeakable sufrings such as no man can tell : status and the treatment of prisoners of war.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-325) and index.
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