Enlistment and Conscription

John U. Rees

Continental Army draft, vol. 1, 250 (300 words);
German soldiers serving in British regiments, vol. 1, 424–425 (250 words); Entries in Mark M. Boatner, Encyclopedia of the American Revolution: Library of Military History,
Harold E. Selesky, ed. (2nd Edition, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006)

“Friedrich Lacour: A German Deserter with the Second New Jersey Regiment,” Journal of the Johannes Schwalm Historical Association, vol. 7, no. 4 (2004), 55–56.

“`The pleasure of their number’: 1778, Crisis, Conscription, and Revolutionary Soldiers’Recollections”

Part I. “’Filling the Regiments by drafts from the Militia.’: The 1778 Recruiting Acts” Part II. "’Fine, likely, tractable men.’: Levy Statistics and New Jersey Service Narratives” Part III. "He asked me if we had been discharged …”: New Jersey, Massachusetts, New York, Maryland, and North Carolina Levy Narratives” ALHFAM Bulletin, vol. XXXIII, no. 3 (Fall 2003), 23–-34; no. 4 (Winter 2004), 23–34; vol. XXXIV, no. 1 (Spring 2004), 19–28.

"`He Come Out with us this time As a Volunteer': Soldiers Serving Without Pay in the Second New Jersey Regiment, 1777–1780," Military Collector & Historian, vol. XLV, no. 4 (Winter 1993), 154–155.

"`The new Leveys are coming in dayly ...': The Nine Month Draft in the Second New Jersey Regiment and Maxwell's New Jersey Brigade”
(Including a study of "The Use and Effect of the Nine-Month Draft in the Other Brigades of Washington's Army"), included in "I Expect to be stationed in Jersey sometime...": An Account of the Services of the New Jersey Regiment, December 1777 to June 1778, Part I MSS (1994), for which see Regimental and Battalion Studies.)

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