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Complete Article List, Published and Unpublished World of the Common Soldier (Master List of Articles and Monographs) John U. Rees 136 North Sugan Road, New Hope, Pa. 18938 Phone: (215) 862-2348 Email: [email protected] Commander-in-Chief’s Guard, 1778 1 Jane Austen’s heroine Fanny Price sums up the historian’s quandary: “If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient: at others again so bewildered, and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle in every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting, do seem particularly past finding out.” (Jane Austen, “Mansfield Park,” Jane Austen: The Complete Novels (New York: Gramercy Books, 1981), 458.) Subject Headings Book Reviews Campaign, Battle, Combat, and Operational Studies (1775-1783) Women Following the Army (1775-1783) Letters, Diaries, and Order Books African-American Soldiers (1775-1783) Military Musicians (1775-1783) Enlistment and Conscription (1775-1783) Miscellaneous Subjects (1775-1783) Miscellaneous Subjects (Not Related to the War for Independence) Family and Local History New Jersey Brigade (1775-1783) Regimental, Battalion, and other Unit Studies (1775-1783) Miscellaneous Military Material Culture (1775-1783) Tactics and Military Manuals Transportation (1775-1783) Soldiers' Shelter (1775-1783) Soldiers' Rations, Food Preparation and Cooking Utensils (1755-2000) Brother Jonathan’s Images Other Authors’ Monographs (By Topic) Posted on My Scribd Page (Note: Titles in reddish brown have duplicate entries under another category.) John Rees has written over 140 articles and monographs since 1986 on various aspects of the common soldiers' experience, focusing primarily on the War for Independence. Current works and interests include soldiers’ food (1755 to the present day), Continental Army conscription (1777-1782), the organization and service of the late-war Pennsylvania battalions, and the common soldiers’ burden. John’s work has appeared in the ALHFAM Bulletin (Association of Living History, Farm, and Agricultural Museums), American Revolution (Magazine of the American Revolution Association), The Brigade Dispatch (Journal of the Brigade of the American Revolution), The Continental Soldier (Journal of the Continental Line), Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, Journal of the Johannes Schwalm Historical Association, Military Collector & Historian, Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military, Muzzleloader Magazine, On Point: The Newsletter of the Army Historical Foundation, Percussive Notes (Journal of the Percussive Arts Society), and Repast (Quarterly Publication of the Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor). He was a regular columnist for the quarterly newsletter Food History News for 15 years writing on soldiers' food, wrote four entries for the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink, thirteen entries for the revised Thomson Gale edition of Boatner’s Encyclopedia of the American Revolution, contributed a chapter to Carol Karels’ The Revolutionary War in Bergen County (2007), and two chapters to Barbara Z. Marchant’s Revolutionary Bergen County, The Road to Independence (2009). Article list available online at http://tinyurl.com/jureesarticles . Selected Civil War monographs posted online at http://www.libertyrifles.org/research/ Additional monographs posted at http://tinyurl.com/jureesarticles 2 https://www.scribd.com/doc/236104178/World-of-the-Common-Soldier-Comprehensive-list-of- articles-and-monographs-by-John-U-Rees-updated-August-6-2014 Book Reviews http://www.scribd.com/doc/125414340/J-U-Rees-Article-List-Book-Reviews Book Review: Joseph Lee Boyle, "`My last Shift Betwixt Us & death’: The Ephraim Blaine Letterbook, 1777-1778," The Brigade Dispatch, vol. XXIX, no. 1 (Winter 2001), 22. http://www.scribd.com/doc/124457540/Review-Ephraim-Blaine-Letterbook-New Book Review: Frederick C. Gaede, “The Federal Civil War Shelter Tent,” Military Collector & Historian, vol. 54, no. 4 (Winter 2002-2003), 197. http://www.scribd.com/doc/124457304/Review-Shelter-Tent-New Book Review: Thomas J. McGuire, “Battle of Paoli,” On Point: The Newsletter of the Army Historical Foundation, vol. 8, no. 3 (Fall 2002), 17. http://www.scribd.com/doc/124412310/Review-Rees-Paoli-Two-New Book Review: Michael C. Scoggins, “The Day it Rained Militia: Huck’s Defeat and the Revolution in the South Carolina Backcountry, May–July 1780,” The Dispatch of the Company of Military Historians, Book Review Edition (December 2008). http://www.scribd.com/doc/124457424/Review-Huck-s-Defeat-New Book Review: Agostino von Hassell, Herm Dillon, Leslie Jean-Bart, Military High Life: Elegant Food Histories and Recipes (New Orleans: University Press of the South, 2006), 162 pp., Illustrations. $34.95 (cloth), Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, vol. 7, no. 4 (Fall 2007), 106-107. http://www.scribd.com/doc/124454282/Review-Military-High-Life-Final-Three-New Book Review: “`We Were Marching on Christmas Day’: History, Food, and Civilian and Soldiers’ Celebrations,” Food History News, vol. XIII, no. 2 (50), 2, 7. Review of Kevin Rawlings, We Were Marching on Christmas Day: A History and Chronicle of Christmas During the Civil War (Baltimore, Md.: Toomey Press, 1996). 170 pages, index, illustrations. $24.95. Toomey Press, P.O. Box 122, Linthicum, Md., 21090; phone, (410) 850-0831. (http://www.libertyrifles.org/research/christmasday.html) http://www.scribd.com/doc/124281893/Review-Hard-Marching-on-Christmas-Day Dual Book Review: Andrew F. Smith, Starving the South: How the North Won the Civil War (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2011), 304 pp., $27.99 (paper), and William C. Davis, A Taste for War: The Culinary History of the Blue and the Gray (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2003), 233 pp., Illustrations. $26.95 (hardback), Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, vol. 12, no. 1 (Spring 2012), 103-105. http://www.scribd.com/doc/124410014/Reviews-Civil-War-Starving-the-South-and-a- Taste-for-War 3 Campaign, Battle, Combat, and Operational Studies http://www.scribd.com/doc/125414187/J-U-Rees-Article-List-Campaign-Battle-Combat- And-Operational-Studies-1775-1783 “`What is this you have been about to day?’: The New Jersey Brigade at the Battle of Monmouth,” http://revwar75.com/library/rees/monmouth/MonmouthToc.htm Narrative http://revwar75.com/library/rees/monmouth/Monmouth.htm#1 1. Introduction 2. "In readiness to march at a moment's warning ...": Pre-Battle Dispositions and Plans 3. "To get up with the enemy": Major General Charles Lee's Force Sets Off 4. "I found the whole of the troops upon my right retreating ...": Morning Confrontation at Monmouth Courthouse 5. "The day was so excessively hot ...": Lee’s Retreat 6. “They answered him with three cheers ...”: Washington Recovers the Day 7. “The Action was Exceedingly warm and well Maintained …”: Infantry Fighting at the Point of Woods, Hedge-row, and Parsonage 8. "The finest musick, I Ever heared.": Afternoon Artillery Duel, and Cilley’s Attack on the 42nd Regiment 9. “Detached to assist in burying the dead …”: Battle’s Aftermath 10. “The March has proved salutory to the troops.”: Post-Battle: The Continental Army Moves North 11.“A very irregular & ill managed Embarkation.”: Post-Battle British March to Sandy Hook 12. "The defective constitution of our army ...": Casting Blame for the Morning Debacle 13. Battle of Monmouth, June 28, 1778: Event Synopsis Appendices A. “Beware of being Burgoyned.”: Marching Toward Monmouth, Delaware River to Freehold, 18 to 27 June 1778 http://revwar75.com/library/rees/monmouth/MonmouthA.htm B. “The whole army moved towards the Delaware …”: Continental Army March from Valley Forge to Englishtown, N.J., 18 to 27 June 1778 http://revwar75.com/library/rees/monmouth/MonmouthB.htm C. “General Lee being detached with the advanced Corps …”: Composition of Charles Lee’s Force http://revwar75.com/library/rees/monmouth/MonmouthC.htm D. “Our Division formed a line on the eminence …”:Washington’s Main Army Order of Battle, 28 June 1778 http://revwar75.com/library/rees/monmouth/MonmouthD.htm E. “A large Number of troops …”: Continental and British Army Field Returns, 28 June 1778 http://revwar75.com/library/rees/monmouth/MonmouthE.htm F.“I resolved nevertheless to attack them …”: American Monmouth Battle Accounts http://revwar75.com/library/rees/monmouth/MonmouthF.htm G. “Charge, Grenadiers, never heed forming”: British Accounts of the Monmouth Battle http://revwar75.com/library/rees/monmouth/MonmouthG.htm H. "More Glorious to America than at first Supposed ...": New Jersey Officers Describe the Battle of Monmouth http://revwar75.com/library/rees/monmouth/MonmouthH.htm I. "They answered him with three cheers ...": New Jersey Common Soldiers' Pension Depositions http://revwar75.com/library/rees/monmouth/MonmouthI.htm J. “A very smart cannonading ensued from both sides.”: Maxwell’s Jersey Brigade Artillery and the Afternoon Cannonade at Monmouth http://revwar75.com/library/rees/monmouth/MonmouthJ.htm 4 K. “Jun 29th, Buried the Dead …”: Casualties in the Battle of Monmouth http://revwar75.com/library/rees/monmouth/MonmouthK.htm L. “We are informed by several persons …“: Contemporary Newspaper Accounts http://revwar75.com/library/rees/monmouth/MonmouthL.htm M. “That damned blue Regiment …”: Continental Army Clothing during the Monmouth
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