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To Starve the Army at Pleasure - Continental Army Administration and American Political Culture, 1775-1783 (Paperback, New edition)
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To Starve the Army at Pleasure - Continental Army Administration and American Political Culture, 1775-1783 (Paperback, New edition)
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American political culture and military necessity were at odds
during the War for American Independence, as demonstrated in this
interpretation of Continental army administration. E. Wayne Carp
shows that at every level of authority -- congressional, state, and
county -- a localistic world-view, a deferential political order,
and adherence to republican ideology impeded the task of supplying
the army, even though independence demanded military strength.
Placing military history within the context of colonial and
revolutionary historiography, Carp finds that the colonial American
belief that authority and political power should be decentralized
deeply influenced Congress's approach to the task of supplying the
army. Furthermore, most Congressmen had neither military experience
nor any idea of how to administer an army, while local governments
constantly thwarted the army's efforts to obtain supplies -- they
blocked impressment and interfered with the movement of food and
clothing.
Carp shows that political leaders eventually adjusted their ideals
to the imperatives of winning the war. He offers a revisionist
analysis of the origins of the Nationalist movement of 1780-83 that
was begun by army officers and state legislators fearing the
imminent failure of the Revolution. Lacking unity and blinded by
republican ideology, the Nationalists did not markedly improve the
administration of the army. Instead, it was largely through the
efforts of Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris, the cooperation
of the French, and sheer luck that the British were ultimately
defeated. Carp concludes that the Americans won the Revolution "in
spite of, rather than because of, their political beliefs."
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