A proper sense of honor : service and sacrifice in George Washington's army /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cox, Caroline, 1954-2014
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.
Subjects:	United States. > Continental Army > History. United States. > Continental Army > Military life. United States. > Continental Army > Officers > Social conditions. Soldiers > United States > Social conditions > 18th century. Honor > United States > History > 18th century. United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Social aspects.

Table of 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.