World of the Common Soldier
(Article List, Published and Unpublished)
John U. Rees
136 North Sugan Road,
New Hope, Pa. 18938
Phone: (215) 862-2348
Email: ju_rees@msn.com
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John Rees has written over 150 articles and monographs since 1986 on various aspects of the common soldiers' experience, focusing primarily on the War for Independence. Current works and interests include soldiers's food (1755 to the present day), Continental Army conscription (1777–1782), the organization and service of the late-war Pennsylvania battalions, officer's campaign and cooking equipment, and the common soldiers' burden.
John's work has appeared in the ALHFAM Bulletin (Association of Living History, Farm, and Agricultural Museums), American Revolution (Magazine of the American Revolution Association), The Brigade Dispatch (Journal of the Brigade of the American Revolution), The Continental Soldier (Journal of the Continental Line), Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, Journal of the Johannes Schwalm Historical Association, Military Collector & Historian, Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military, Muzzleloader Magazine, On Point: The Newsletter of the Army Historical Foundation, and Percussive Notes (Journal of the Percussive Arts Society). He was a regular columnist for the quarterly newsletter Food History News for 19 years writing on soldiers' food, 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, contributed a chapter to Carol Karels' The Revolutionary War in Bergen County (2007), and two chapters to Barbara Z. Marchant's Revolutionary Bergen County, The Road to Independence (2009). A partial article list plus many complete works are available online at http://www.revwar75.com/library/rees/ . Selected Civil War monographs posted online at http://www.libertyrifles.org/research/. The author's article on the March 1780 action at Paramus, New Jersey may be viewed at, http://tinyurl.com/bja36
(Elected Fellow of the Company of Military Historians, April 2009.)
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