LAD #4 - Revolution Article

Five things I learned by reading the article "Rethinking the Revolution" by John Ferling.

I. Paintings from the Revolutionary War were sanitized, almost all of them did not show war scenes and those that did, did not show people shooting or wielding bayonets. That was in vast comparison to the pictures in the Civil War that showed a mass of dead bodies.

 Above: Revolutionary Painting

II. Dead bodies, during the revolution, laid in the streets. Streets were covered in blood and wagons ran over the dead bodies and because there were so many bodies sometimes they were not all dead and people could hear the living people on the streets pleading for help.

 

Above: Revolutionary bodies being burried
III. Many people in the patriot army during the Revolutionary War lacked a supply of clothes, these soldiers were forced to spend months without shoes or proper clothes. During the winter months, Washington noticed that their were foot prints of soldiers in the snow, and they were not boot prints, they were foot prints because those soldiers did not have shoes.

Above: Military uniform
IV. During the Revolutionary War, 47% of soldiers in the Continental Army that were taken prisoner died, in comparison, 12% of Confederate prisoners died in prison camps during the Civil War. There is a major difference between the two numbers.

Above: Prison camp
V. Civilians suffered during the Revolutionary War due to disease brought to them by soldiers. In a small Massachusetts town, many people fell ill with disease brought to them by a camp of soldiers near them.

Above: Soldiers fighting a battle