. The first American civil war; first period, 1775-1778, with chapters on the continental or revolutionary army and on the forces of the crown . -^ /J^^^mmxmyf^ - ^^^ 1775- IX THE CONTINENTAL ARMY 29 who were for the most part countryfolk, hands from thesmithy and the plough. In order to win recruits heappears to have used all the cajolery that a recruitingsergeant in the eighteenth century had to frequented taverns, drank heavily, occasionallyknocked a man down in the course of brawls andpot-house squabbles, and was engaged in much work hefound intensely distasteful. This way of
. The first American civil war; first period, 1775-1778, with chapters on the continental or revolutionary army and on the forces of the crown . -^ /J^^^mmxmyf^ - ^^^ 1775- IX THE CONTINENTAL ARMY 29 who were for the most part countryfolk, hands from thesmithy and the plough. In order to win recruits heappears to have used all the cajolery that a recruitingsergeant in the eighteenth century had to frequented taverns, drank heavily, occasionallyknocked a man down in the course of brawls andpot-house squabbles, and was engaged in much work hefound intensely distasteful. This way of collectingrecruits may have contributed towards the contemptentertained by the rank and file for some of their from captivity on parole in July 1777,Graydon, as he came home to Philadelphia, noticed atotal absence of military parade or martial vigour in theJerseys and Pennsylvania, Washington, he says, waswith the little remnant of his army at Morristown, leftto scuffle for liberty like another Cato at , majors, and colonels were dog cheap. Manyof them were still potmen and bar-tenders. Theirmartial fire wa
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