Tag: 13th Virginia Regiment

People Posted on May 11, 2021May 12, 2021

A Choice Body of Men: The Continental Army on the Upper Ohio

The settlers who chose to make their homes in the upper Ohio in the mid to late eighteenth century faced a wide variety of challenges to survive in this backcountry, ranging from the distance to centers of trade and population to the difficulty in practicing agriculture in old-growth forests. That this frontier, the area surrounding […]

by David P. Ervin

People Posted on March 18, 2021March 15, 2021

Virginia’s Independent Frontier Companies, Part 2 of 2

The Fifth Virginia Convention convened in Williamsburg in May 1776 with a weighty agenda before it. The 169-year-old colony declared its independence from Britain and proposed that Congress do the same. It adopted a new constitution and a Declaration of Rights that would immediately be the model for the Declaration of Independence and later provide […]

by Gabriel Neville