Author: Katie Shoultz

Katie Shoultz works in information security, with a background in law and a lifetime in the saddle. Away from work, her attention turns to the founding era: its people, its land and animals, its houses, and nearly everything else the period left behind.

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Nelson and Blueskin: Washington’s Revolutionary War Horses in the Documentary Record

George Washington’s two most-remembered wartime mounts, Nelson and Blueskin, have been the subject of considerable popular retelling, much of it post-dating the events by decades. The manuscript record is thinner than the later accounts but clear on the essentials. Both horses came to Washington as gifts from friends. Both carried him through much of the […]

by Katie Shoultz