Connecticut Light Infantry

Autobiography and Biography, Features, Interviews, The War Years (1775-1783) November 22, 2022 November 21, 2022

This Week on Dispatches: Chip Langston on Captain James Morris

by Editors

On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor Chip Langston on the life of Captain James Morris of the Connecticut Light Infantry who…

Battles, Memoir, Prisoners of War, The War Years (1775-1783) November 15, 2022 November 15, 2022

Captain James Morris of the Connecticut Light Infantry

by Chip Langston

In 1812 when the British attacked the United States for the second time, Captain James Morris of the South Farms District of Litchfield, Connecticut,…

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1. Walt C The Delcastle Cannonball

McLane's mounted company were always around, seldom seen. It's possible they were the unit that left smoldering campfires above Hockessin Meetinghouse when the British arrived, late afternoon of Sep 9.…
2. Phil Weaver Caleb Brewster’s Spy Boat Boys

It has nothing to do with era it was written. The book is part of the "Army Lineage Series." It had to be written to match that premise. It is…
3. Bob Winowitch Caleb Brewster’s Spy Boat Boys

Phil, I know we disagree on some of Wright's work, but this holds true for the three Suffolk County companies enlisted into the Third NY of '75. Those three companies…