Suffering soldiers
Subtitle: Revolutionary War veterans, moral sentiment, and political culture in the early republic
By: John Resch.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: United States. Continental Army -- Public opinion.; Military pensions -- United States -- History -- 18th century.; Military pensions -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Public opinion -- United States -- History.; Veterans -- Government policy -- United States -- History.; Veterans -- United States -- Social conditions.; Veterans -- New Hampshire -- Peterborough -- Social conditions.; Political culture -- United States -- History.; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Veterans.; New Hampshire -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Veterans.
Description: "This book examines how the moral sentiment of gratitude, as expressed in the image of the suffering soldier, transformed the memory of the Revolutionary War, political culture, and public policy in the early American Republic. This popular depiction removed the stigma of vice and treason from the Continental Army, legitimized the army as a republican institution, and credited it with securing independence.

By glorifying the now aged, impoverished, and infirm Continental soldiers as republican warriors, the image also accentuated the nation's guilt for its ingratitude toward the veterans."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-307) and index.