America Goes to War Mary Crnobori Treisman's Activity Books series

Treisman's Activity Books series

or the way the meadow grasses waved goodbye

loss is resistant to the balm of forgetting

unchangeable faculty

America Goes to War Mary Crnobori Treisman's Activity Books seriesOne of the images Americans hold most dear is that of the drum beating, fire eating Yankee Doodle Dandy rebel, overpowering his British adversaries through sheer grit and determination. The myth of the classless, independence minded farmer or hard working artisan turned soldier is deeply ingrained in the national psyche. Charles Neimeyer here separates fact from fiction, revealing for the first time who really served in the army during the Revolution