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Congress's Own
A Canadian Regiment, the Continental Army, and American Union
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Congress's Own Volume 73
A Canadian Regiment, the Continental Army, and American Union
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America’s War for Independence dramatically affected the speed and nature of broader social, cultural, and political changes including those shaping the place and roles of women in society. Women fought the American Revolution in many ways, in a literal no less than a figurative sense. Whether Loyalist or Patriot, Indigenous or immigrant enslaved or slave-owning, going willingly into battle or responding when war came to their doorsteps, women participated in the conflict in complex and varied ways that reveal the critical distinctions and intersections of race, class, and allegiance that defined the era.
This collection examines the impact of Revolutionary-era women on the outcomes of the war and its subsequent narrative tradition, from popular perception to academic treatment. The contributors show how women navigated a country at war, directly affected the war’s result, and influenced the foundational historical record left in its wake. Engaging directly with that record, this volume’s authors demonstrate the ways that the Revolution transformed women’s place in America as it offered new opportunities but also imposed new limitations in the brave new world they helped create.
Contributors:Jacqueline Beatty, York College * Carin Bloom, Historic Charleston Foundation * Todd W. Braisted, independent scholar * Benjamin L. Carp, Brooklyn College * Lauren Duval, University of Oklahoma * Steven Elliott, U.S. Army Center of Military History * Lorri Glover, Saint Louis University * Don N. Hagist, Journal of the American Revolution * Sean M. Heuvel, Christopher Newport University * Martha J. King, Papers of Thomas Jefferson * Barbara Alice Mann, University of Toledo * J. Patrick Mullins, Marquette University * Alisa Wade, California State University at Chico
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Chronicles the identities and importance of civilians to the American Revolutionary War effort
Belonging to the Army reveals the identity and importance of the civilians now referred to as camp followers, whom Holly A. Mayer calls the forgotten revolutionaries of the War for American Independence. These merchants, contractors, family members, servants, government officers, and military employees provided necessary supplies, services, and emotional support to the troops of the Continental Army. They served in virtually every imaginable capacity, from lifting spirits with food, drink, and dances to nursing the sick, digging ditches, and spying on and fighting against the enemy. Mayer demonstrates that by making encampments livable communities—a matter of some significance given the years it took to acheive independence—these civilians played a fundamental role in the survival and ultimate success of the Continental Army.
In this study of the army as a community rather than merely as a formal military organization, Mayer looks at the formation and administration of the Continental community as well as the meaning of class, gender, and race within in. She considers whether the community contributed to social revolution even as it struggled to effect the independence that was part of the political revolution.
Mayer describes how the military initially wanted to be rid of most camp followers, but, unable to fulfill its own support functions, assimilated the civilians and thus gave an expansive meaning to the term "belonging to the army." She documents how such assimilation included attempts to make camp followers "invisible" and to make them fit the army''s visionary image. Mayer shows that in actuality, the military failed to conceal and recast the civilians'' efforts and that invisibility only enveloped the camp followers as the nation chose to remember selectively who belonged to army.