Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-325) and index.
Contents
Take the length of every soldier : servants, sons, and gentlemen of the Continental Army -- A proper sense of honor : educating officers and soldiers -- Necessary and excusable measures : the policy and practice of punishment -- Oh the groans of the sick : health, status, and military medicine -- The last duty to the dead : death and burial in the Continental Army -- Onspeakable sufrings such as no man can tell : status and the treatment of prisoners of war.