The Soldier's Two Bodies: Military Sacrifice and Popular Sovereignty in Revolutionary War Veteran NarrativesIn The Soldiers Two Bodies, James M. Greene investigates an overlooked genre of early American literaturethe Revolutionary War veteran narrativeshowing that it by turns both promotes and critiques a notion of military heroism as the source of U. S. sovereignty. Personal narratives by veterans of the American Revolution indicate that soldiers in the United States have been represented in two contrasting ways from the nations first days: as heroic