America Goes to War: A Social History of the Continental Army

Contents

Contents List ojIllustrations Preface Prologue A Cosmopolitan Community 3 Pay, Discipline, and Resistance 5 Arrangement ofChapters 5 ONE Few Had the Appearance ofSoldiers: The Social Origins ofthe Continental Line The Colonial Military Tradition 9 Social Origins ofthe Enlisted Men I 5 TWO The Most Audacious Rascals Existing: The Irish in the Continental Army Recruiting the Irishfor the Continental Army 34 T H R E E A True Pelt-Melt ofHuman Souls: The Germans in the Continental Army The Germans and America 45 Recruiting Germansfor the Army 47 F 0 U R Changing One Masterfor Another: Black Soldiers in the Continental Army PrewarR~tanre 66 Recruiting African Americansfor War 72 Conclusion 85 XI XIll 8 44 IX x • Contents F I V E Scalp Bounties and Truck Houses: The Struggle 89 for Indian Allies in the Revolution S I X To Get as Much for My Skin as I Could: The 108 Soldier as Wage Laborer S EVE N Running Through the Line Like Wildfire: 130 Resistance, Punishment, Desertion, and Mutiny in the Continental Army Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index 221 239 ...