Think you know all there is to know about the Revolutionary War? 
Desertions, going over to the enemy and mutinies were common 
throughout the war. It was no wonder. This was a forgotten Army 
of veterans treated shabbily. Just like today.
 
 
 
The Bush and Cheney lack of caring about our veterans
from Iraq and Afghanistan is nothing new. This kind of
behavior has its roots in the American Revolutionary War.
Forgotten Army:
The Abandonment of
American Revolutionary War
Soldiers
by DUDLEY C GOULD
 
 Trade Paperback; 69 pages; 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"
ISBN-13: 978-0-913337-64-6; ISBN-10: 0-913337-64-1
Retail $9.95
 
All would in today’s military qualify for Red Cross hardship discharges allowing soldiers to return home
to protect their families from physical harm and malnu-trition; enable them to sow and harvest crops,
tend to livestock and aid disease-ridden towns bury its dead; earn money for their loved ones.
Cries of hurt came from all over, from Manhattan’s Fort Washington where 6,000 were dragged off
POW, fleeing hopelessly over rough roads of East and West New Jersey, awaiting the end of the month
when most enlistments would expire. Massed deaths from starvation and exposure to the elements,
dreadful epidemics of diseases for which there were no cures. Three thousand, many barefoot in the
snow, died during the three-month winter at Valley Forge and such defeats took place as Brandywine
Creek and in the deadly confusion at Germantown where Americans shot Americans.
The desperate Christmas raid at Trenton, New Jersey was quickly forgotten in a series of defeats in pain,
bloody feet, near starvation, lack of blankets, led by a southern aristocrat who had yet to win a battle
with the British. The hard-fighting, dying, close-quarter force of musket infantry came from poor to
moderate income families, mostly small family farmers, free and borrowed black slaves, white-haired
veterans of the French and Indian War a decade earlier and teenage nobodies fulfilling ambitions
to become men.
Continental Army soldiers, tattered, freezing in homemade linen uniforms in winter, exposed to burning
sun in summer, constant prey to insects and mysterious diseases, were poorly paid and fed. And their
families back home were exposed to attacks by armed Loyalists and hostile Indians.
Desertions, going over to the enemy and mutinies were common throughout the war. It was no wonder.
This was a forgotten Army.
Forgotten Army:
The Abandonment of American
Revolutionary War Soldiers
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