Interesting Facts about the Soldiers of the American Revolution

Random Facts about the Soldiers of the American Revolution

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Random Facts about the Soldiers of the American Revolution

THE ARMY OF THE REVOLUTION
It is not positively known how many men from the colonies served in the war. The official tabular statement indicates a total off recorded years of enlistment and not a total of the the men who served.

Hence, a man who served from April 19, 1775, until the formal cessation of hostilities, April 19, 1783 counted as eight men in the aggregate.

In this basis of enlisted years, the following table gives the contribution various States:

New Hampshire, 12,497; Massachusetts, 69,907; Rhode Island, 5,908; Connecticut, 31,939; New York, 17,781; New Jersey, 10,726; Pennsylvania, 25,678; Delaware, 2,386; Maryland, 13,912; Virginia, 26,678; North Carolina, 7,263; South Carolina, 6,417; Georgia, 2,679; Total, 233,771.