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Author : Walter Hart Blumenthal
Release : 1952
Genre : Camp followers
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Book Synopsis Women Camp Followers of the American Revolution by : Walter Hart Blumenthal
Download or read book Women Camp Followers of the American Revolution written by Walter Hart Blumenthal. This book was released on 1952. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nancy K. Loane
Release : 2021-11-29
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Following the Drum by : Nancy K. Loane
Download or read book Following the Drum written by Nancy K. Loane. This book was released on 2021-11-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friday, December 19, 1777, dawned cold and windy. Fourteen thousand Continental Army soldiers tramped from dawn to dusk along the rutted Pennsylvania roads from Gulph Mills to Valley Forge, the site of their winter encampment. The soldiers' arrival was followed by the army's wagons and hundreds of camp women. Following the Drum tells the story of the forgotten women who spent the winter of 1777-78 with the Continental Army at Valley Forge--from those on society's lowest rungs to ladies on the upper echelons. Impoverished and clinging to the edge of survival, many camp women were soldiers' wives who worked as the army's washers, nurses, cooks, and seamstresses. Other women at the encampment were of higher status: they traveled with George Washington's entourage when the army headquarters shifted locations and served the general as valued cooks, laundresses, or housekeepers. There were also the ladies at Valley Forge who were not subject to the harsh conditions of camp life and came and went as they and their husbands, Washington's generals and military advisers, saw fit. Nancy K. Loane uses sources such as issued military orders, pension depositions after the war, soldiers' descriptions, and some of the women's own diary entries and letters to bring these women to life.
Author : Walter Hart Blumenthal
Release : 1952
Genre : United States
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Book Synopsis Women Camp Followers of the Revolution by : Walter Hart Blumenthal
Download or read book Women Camp Followers of the Revolution written by Walter Hart Blumenthal. This book was released on 1952. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carol Berkin
Release : 2007-12-18
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 498/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Revolutionary Mothers by : Carol Berkin
Download or read book Revolutionary Mothers written by Carol Berkin. This book was released on 2007-12-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking history of the American Revolution that “vividly recounts Colonial women’s struggles for independence—for their nation and, sometimes, for themselves.... [Her] lively book reclaims a vital part of our political legacy" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American. In this book, Carol Berkin shows us how women played a vital role throughout the conflict. The women of the Revolution were most active at home, organizing boycotts of British goods, raising funds for the fledgling nation, and managing the family business while struggling to maintain a modicum of normalcy as husbands, brothers and fathers died. Yet Berkin also reveals that it was not just the men who fought on the front lines, as in the story of Margaret Corbin, who was crippled for life when she took her husband’s place beside a cannon at Fort Monmouth. This incisive and comprehensive history illuminates a fascinating and unknown side of the struggle for American independence.
Author : Suzanne Adair
Release : 2012-03-16
Genre : American loyalists
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Book Synopsis Camp Follower by : Suzanne Adair
Download or read book Camp Follower written by Suzanne Adair. This book was released on 2012-03-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As 1780 draws to a close, the publisher of a loyalist magazine in Wilmington, North Carolina, assigns Helen Chiswell, his society page writer, to pose as the widowed sister of a British officer and join an encampment of the British Legion. Helen, a loyalist, must confront her past to save her life during the War for American Independence.
