Author: New Jersey. Adjutant-General's Office
Publisher:
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Category : New Jersey
Languages : en
Pages : 1282

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Author: United States. National Archives and Records Service
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Author: John A. Ruddiman
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813936187
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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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.

Author: Donald Lines Jacobus
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806317496
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 554

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Author: Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780806300603
Category : Bounties, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Given in memory of Charles Hudson Edge, Laura James Edge, by Eugene Edge III.

Author:
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 080630670X
Category : Botetourt County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 70

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These records are from the late 18th through the early 19th century. Over 6,000 individuals are named in the marriage records. The probate records identify heirs, with relationships, and give the probate date.

Author: United States. Naval History Division
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Bevin Creel
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1435704061
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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This is the first in a series of volumes of transcribed Virginia war records from the Revolutionary War time period. Volume 1 includes complete transcriptions of three of the celebrated Virginia "War Volumes," along with many Virginia petitions from the Revolutionary War era. Since most of these records have never been published, this book will be a valuable addition to the libraries of Virginia genealogists and historians.

Author: United States. War Department. Pay Department
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806305271
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 576

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Published as Senate Documents, Vol. 9, no. 988, 63rd Congress, 3rd Session.

Author: Louis Alexander Burgess
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 512

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