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John Rees

John Rees

John Rees is an independent writer and researcher specializing in the common soldiers’ experience during the War for American Independence, and in North American soldiers’ food from 1755 to the modern era. Since 1986 he has produced over 150 monographs on these subjects. For fifteen years John served as military food columnist for the quarterly newsletter Food History News. He also wrote four entries for the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink, thirteen entries for the revised Thomson Gale edition of Boatner’s Encyclopedia of the American Revolution, and has contributed to Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, Military Collector & Historian, Muzzleloader Magazine, and Repast (quarterly publication of the Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor). A list of his publications, plus a number of complete works, may be viewed on this website.

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Diaries and Journals, Food & Lifestyle, Primary Sources, Religion, The War Years (1775-1783) December 23, 2021 December 20, 2021

Christmas Day: A Soldier’s Holiday?

Soldiers’ celebrations depended on circumstances, personal beliefs, and family or community traditions. David DeSimone notes in his article “Another Look at Christmas in the…

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Pension Records, People, Primary Sources, The War Years (1775-1783) April 20, 2021 April 18, 2021

“She had gone to the Army . . . to her Husband”: Judith Lines’s Unremarked Life

When the War of the Revolution began in April 1775, Connecticut resident Judith Jeffords née Philips was nineteen years old, had been married for two…

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Features, People, The War Years (1775-1783) February 25, 2021 February 20, 2021

Nineteenth-Century Remembrances of Black Revolutionary Veterans: New Jersey Soldier Oliver Cromwell

Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery in 1849. She became a major conductor on the Underground Railroad, as well as an advocate for Women’s Rights….

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Features, People, The War Years (1775-1783) February 11, 2021 February 9, 2021

Nineteenth-Century Remembrances of Black Revolutionary Veterans: Jacob Francis, Massachusetts Continental and New Jersey Militia

Philadelphia Blacks, under the leadership of well-to-do Robert Purvis, organized the Vigilance Committee to aid and assist fugitive slaves in 1837. Purvis’s wife, Harriett…

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Features, People, The War Years (1775-1783) February 9, 2021 February 6, 2021

Nineteenth-Century Remembrances of Black Revolutionary Veterans: Edward Hector, Bombardier and Wagoner

Nat Turner launched a bloody uprising among enslaved Virginians in Southampton County in 1831 the same year that William Lloyd Garrison of Boston began…

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Features, People, The War Years (1775-1783) February 4, 2021 January 31, 2021

Nineteenth-Century Remembrances of Black Revolutionary Veterans: Thomas Carney, Maryland Continental Soldier

John Russwurm and Samuel Cornish establish the first African American newspaper, Freedom’s Journal, in New York in 1827. The paper circulated in eleven states,…

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Features, People, The War Years (1775-1783) February 2, 2021 February 2, 2021

Nineteenth-Century Remembrances of Black Revolutionary Veterans: Hannah Till, George Washington’s Cook

The 1820 Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri to become a slave state, established Maine as a free state, and banned slavery in the territory west…

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People April 28, 2015 August 28, 2016

War as a Waiter: Soldier Servants

In August 1779 Continental army surgeon Jabez Campfield wrote, “How hard is the soldier’s lott who’s least danger is in the field of action?…

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