the private soldier under washington
The book predates the social history era of the 1960's and beyond by over half a century, and yet it stacks up very well to the more modern accounts. The books goal is to relate the reader what it was like to serve as a private soldier, a man in the ranks, in the Continental Army of 1775-1783. It does this by relying on a few well chosen primary sources. Author’s sources tend towards individual diaries and letters notably George Washington himself and about ten or so other diarists. He choose, interestingly, a majority of his sources from the diaries of Continental Army Chaplains. He does a very good job of covering the mundane and the grand. Everything from uniforms, weapons, and training to the horror of the medical care and prison ships.
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