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The Virginia War Department During The American Revolution, Thomas Gregory Tune
The Virginia War Department During The American Revolution, Thomas Gregory Tune
Master's Theses
This thesis will provide a comprehensive analysis of the Virginia War Office during the American Revolution. A study of the War Office must start with its origin and, therefore, with the legislation that created it. This thesis will explore the reasons for the creation of the War Office and its legislative evolution into one of the most powerful agencies in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It will also discuss the War Office's legislative demise near the end of the war as the Virginia General Assembly began to shrink the government in cost-saving measures.
The second part of this thesis will examine …
The American Revolutionary Soldier, 1775-1781, Robert Edward Hanie
The American Revolutionary Soldier, 1775-1781, Robert Edward Hanie
Master's Theses
The object of this paper is to present a survey of soldier life in the American Revolutionary Army. Although the study might be labeled "social history", the researcher believes that history is the product of all the kaleidoscopic events of the past, and that no phenomena exerts an influence of undue proportions. History is alive. History provides the continuing link between the vast "eons" of the past and the remarkable shortness of the "present."