REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS OF THE SOUTHERN STATES: A Demographic View

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A comprehensive study of more than eight thousand American Revolutionary War soldiers, sailors, and marines from Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia who filed pension applications after the war. Explores where and when soldiers were born, what units they served in, where and how they enlisted, their ages, how long they served, how many times they enlisted, the battles in which they fought, prisoner of war status, and where they lived after the war. Also quantified in the work are summaries of minority pension applicants: free men of color, Native Americans, and indentured men. Hundreds of individual soldier experiences are described, nearly all of these being previously unpublished. Contains 30 illustrations.