There, on December 31, Washington made an impassioned plea to each regiment, imploring the men to extend their enlistments for another six months. |
Nearly destitute of food, clothing, and ammunition, with enlistments expiring and men abandoning what looked like a lost cause, the Continental army was about to fade away. |
The results demonstrate that both the earnings and unemployment varialbes exert a sizable and statistically significant effect on army enlistments. |
The army had dwindled to fewer than 5,000 men fit for duty, and would be reduced to 1,400 after enlistments expired at the end of the year. |
But Hawkeye was too much accustomed to the war song and the enlistments of the natives, to betray any interest in the passing scene. |
That system is also creaking to a halt, with plunging enlistments and retentions. |