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Category Archives: Common Soldier
Uncovering the Continental Army in Morristown
Part of an ongoing series of about the Continental Army in Morristown, New Jersey. For the first post, click here. “The smallpox has made such head in every quarter that I find it impossible to keep it from spreading thro’ … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Common Soldier, Memory, Revolutionary War
Tagged American Revolution, American Revolutionary War, Army Heritage Center Foundation, Continental Army, Emerging Revolutionary War, First Baptist Church, George Washington, Morristown, Morristown National Historical Park, Smallpox
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Uncovering the Continental Army in Morristown
Approximately one month ago, I took a temporary detail assignment to Morristown National Historical Park. The national park preserves the winter cantonments of the Continental Army during the American Revolution; including the harshest winter, weather-wise, of the entire war, in … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Campaigns, Common Soldier, Continental Leadership, Memory, Northern Theater, Revolutionary War
Tagged American Revolution, American Revolutionary War, Continental Army, Continental Encampment, George Washington, Marquis de Lafayette, Morristown, Morristown National Historical Park, National Park Service, New Jersey
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Review: European Armies of the French Revolution, 1789–1802 (Campaigns and Commanders Series) Edited by Frederick C. Schneid
Emerging Revolutionary War welcomes back guest historian Bill Backus The American Revolution ultimately set in motion a chain of events that transformed not only society in the Americas but also back in the Old World. Six years after the United … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Book Review, Campaigns, Common Soldier, Uncategorized
Tagged 1789, 1802, Austria, Campaigns and Commanders Series, European, Frederick Schneid, French, French Army, French Revolutiuon, Great Britain, Napoleon Bonaparte, Prussia, Russia, University of Oklahoma Press
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Dr. Prescott, Love & War
Love brought Dr. Samuel Prescott, a practicing physician, to the town of Lexington on the night of April 18, 1775. The young doctor was courting Ms. Lydia Mulliken, when the alarm of the British soldiers marching from Boston went out … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, British Leadership, Campaigns, Civilian, Common Soldier, Memory, Militia (Patriot) Leadership, Minute Men, Monuments, National Park Service, Personalities, Revolutionary War
Tagged Abel Prescott, Battles of Lexington and Concord, British, Concord, Dr. Samuel Prescott, Lexington, Lexington and Concord, militia, Minute Man National Historical Park, Minute Men, Paul Revere, William Dawes
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An Account of April 19, 1775
“the Country was an amazing strong one; full of Hills, Woods, stone Walls, & c., which the Rebels did not fail to take advantage of, for they were all lined with People who kept an incessant fire upon us…” From … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, British Leadership, Campaigns, Civilian, Common Soldier, Militia (Patriot) Leadership, Minute Men, National Park Service, Revolutionary War
Tagged 1775, A Single Blow, American Revolution, American Revolutionary War, April 19, Battle of Concord, Battle of Lexington, Boston, British, Concord, Emerging Revolutionary War, Emerging Revolutionary War Series, ERWS, Lexington, Lexington Green, Lieutenant Frederick Mackenzie, Massachusetts, Menotomy, militia, Minute Men
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“If you Fire, You’ll all be dead men” The Salem Alarm
As events quickly spiraled out of control in the winter and spring of 1774-1775 around Massachusetts, several armed confrontations between local “Patriots” and the British army heightened tensions. On many occasions, both sides adverted open confrontation and were able to … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, British Leadership, Campaigns, Civilian, Common Soldier, Militia (Loyalist) Leadership, Militia (Patriot) Leadership, Minute Men, Monuments, Northern Theater, Revolutionary War, Uncategorized
Tagged Alexander Leslie, Leslie's Retreat, Lt. Col. Alexander Leslie, Paul Revere, Salem, Salem Alarm, Thomas Gage
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Review: The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn, An Untold Story of the American Revolution by Robert P. Watson
Andersonville. Bataan. Auschwitz. All conjure up images of disillusion, devastation, and death. All are infamously known as harsh prisoner-of-war camps. When those words are read, images flash through your mind and memory of hollow faces attached to gaunt bodies staring … Continue reading
