About This Book
This study reconstructs the daily life of the rank-and-file soldier during the American Revolution, contrasting official regulations with actual practice. Drawing on letters, journals, orderly books, and diaries, it surveys housing (tents, huts, makeshift shelters), food and clothing supply, health and sanitation and hospitals, leisure and religious observance, and camp duties and discipline, emphasizing practical difficulties in provision and compliance. Chapters outline prescribed policies and then describe how scarcity, local conditions, and improvisation shaped soldiers' living conditions and behaviors, concluding with a composite day in camp to synthesize the findings.
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