America Goes to War: A Social History of the Continental Army

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A Social History of The Continental Army by Charles Patrick Neimeyer-
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America Goes to War is a revolutionary masterpiece written by Charles Patrick Neimeyer in the eighteenth century, during the initial moments of the continental army revolution. In the initial stages of the revolution, it was greatly desired by a man called John Adams of the continental congress in 1774; that all patriots should demonstrate their loyalty by becoming armed soldiers. The author's original idea was to show real occurrences of how soldiers were made to join the army by force and how they were subjected to harsh and hostile circumstances during and after their training. Neimeyer wanted to distinguish between facts and opinions for what he termed the "fire-eating rhetoric of the rebel elite." Neimeyer further seeks to reveal that John Adams banked increasingly on those not associated with the societies that recruited them to state service. These communities consisted of people that had a tiny form of resistance to the blandishments of an enlisting party and who were more likely to abandon their civil liberties briefly in return for a stable income. The communities consisted of ethnic minorities, African Americans, and free men on the move.
The scope of this book is congeneric in all chapters. It ranges from the author revealing how individuals were recruited into the army barracks against their will to where their rights became important as their lives. Neimeyer uses this scope as his original idea and flow of his entire novel. Neimeyer turns his idea into a masterpiece by refining and clarifying American Goes to War; he focuses on the real historical analysis, characters, and conflicts surrounding the title of his book, such as oppression. The author used Candide to reveal forceful recruitment into war. Neimeyer states unapologetically what soldiers in the army barracks had to go through against their will in the eighteenth century. He gives a true example by revealing the low wages soldiers received and the death rate, which was significantly high. The conditions in the regime were so harsh, to the point that the government that recruited the army dreaded those individuals who were held in tyranny might one fine day turn their guns to them.
Neimeyer begins by recounting how two men in blue, whom he refers to as "members of German barons military recruiting party," capture Candide, a man, and then took him to the army barracks. Neimeyer describes Candide as " a wandering young man," this is proof that seeks to validate his first title that there were few who had the appearance of soldiers. This deficiency is noticed as one military member reveals to his fellow how Candide was a well-made fellow. Candide is seized and taken to the army barracks, where he is taught the different moves that an army needs to know; he receives thirty strokes for being too slow. Candide's attempt to run away by what Neimeyer explains as his freedom to exercise his belief in "free will" led to him being seized again and detained in a dungeon with six other runaways. The author refers to them as "Six-foot heroes." By this, he certainly expla...