The progressive agent of mischief: The whiskey ration and temperance in the United States Army

Historian

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 199-216

  Vargas, Mark A ^a  

^a SAINT XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33751375011     PISSN: 00182370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6563.2005.00109.x     Document Type: Review

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2. For an overview of antebellum army life and the desertion problem see Francis Paul Prucha, Broadax and Bayonet (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1953)
3. Francis Paul Prucha, Sword of the Republic (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1969)
4. Marcus Cunliffe, Soldiers and Civilians (Boston: Little, Brown, 1970)
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9. Charles Edward Banks, The Winthrop Fleet of 1630: An Account of the Vessels, the Voyage, the Passengers and Their English Homes, from Original Authorities (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930)
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36. Davidson, Pool, and Mulligan, 321-22
37. U.S. Surgeon General, Statistical Report on the Sickness and Mortality in the Army of the United States, 1819-January 1835 (Washington, D.C.: Jacob Gideon, 1840), 335
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