Author: Chip Langston

Chip Langston is an Olympic-caliber farrier living in Palm Beach County, Florida, but has had a lifelong passion for chronicling the often untold and forgotten stories in American history. His works can be found in Civil War Times Illustrated and Anvil Magazine. His latest ebook, Jamestown Odyssey: America’s Untold History of Multiracial Families From its Founders can be found on Apple Books. Based on his historical research on the life of the nearly forgotten abolitionist titan John Mercer Langston, he was recently invited to be a guest speaker at Howard University.

Battles Posted on November 15, 2022

Captain James Morris of the Connecticut Light Infantry

In 1812 when the British attacked the United States for the second time, Captain James Morris of the South Farms District of Litchfield, Connecticut, took quill to parchment to capture his six years of experiences during the Revolutionary War as an officer in Connecticut’s Light Infantry.[1] The light infantry was the battle-hardened, elite fighting force […]

by Chip Langston