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A STUDY OF ARMY CAMP LIFE DURING AMERICAN REVOLUTION
BY
MARY HAZEL SNUFF
B. S. North-Western College, 1917.
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the
Degree of
MASTER OF ARTS
IN HISTORY
IN
THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
1918
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| Page | |
| INTRODUCTION | 1 |
| Chapter I HOUSING CONDITIONS | 4 |
| Chapter II FOOD AND CLOTHING | 15 |
| Chapter III HEALTH AND SANITATION | 27 |
| Chapter IV RECREATION IN CAMP | 37 |
| Chapter V RELIGION IN THE CAMP | 46 |
| Chapter VI CAMP DUTIES AND DISCIPLINE | 54 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 64 |
INTRODUCTION
The object of this study is to produce a picture of theprivate soldier of the American Revolution as he lived, ate, waspunished, played, and worshiped in the army camp. Drawing thatpicture not only from the standpoint of the continental congress,the body which made the rules and regulations for governing thearmy, or from the officer's view point as they issued orders fromheadquarters rather just a study of the soldier himself in the campconditions and his reaction to them. It was easy for congress todetermine the rations or for the commander-in-chief to issue ordersabout housing conditions and sanitation, but the opportunities forobeying those orders were not always the best. It is just that fact,not what was intended, but what happened, that is to be discussed.
The soldier in camp is an aspect of the RevolutionaryWar which has been taken up only in a very general way by writersof that period of history, except perhaps the conditions at ValleyForge, for at least their terrible side is quite generally known.Charles Knowles Bolton has studied the private soldier under Was