Tag: Corps of Invalids

Posted on February 8, 2022February 7, 2022

Thomas Ditson: Puritan to Bumpkin to Patriot

The status of Thomas Ditson, Jr., as a minor hero of the American Revolution has more to do with the perception that he was an average, unpretentious farmer caught in the wrong place at the wrong time than with specific displays of courage. A deeper look at his activities reveals years of service first as […]

by Jane L. Green

Posted on April 14, 2021April 15, 2021

The Discovery of an Important Letter from a Soldier of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment

Last spring, the Varnum Memorial Armory Museum in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, announced its discovery of a handwritten letter from a formerly enslaved man who had gained his freedom by enlisting in the 1st Rhode Island Regiment during the Revolutionary War. The letter, written in 1781, is one of only a few known existing letters […]

by Christian McBurney