Riflemen Run Riot: The Mutiny at Prospect Hill
by“They are remarkably stout and hardy men,” thought army surgeon James Thacher, “Dressed in white frocks, or rifle shirts, and round hats.” The robust…
“They are remarkably stout and hardy men,” thought army surgeon James Thacher, “Dressed in white frocks, or rifle shirts, and round hats.” The robust…
“The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.”[1] It had been less than three months since Congress had adopted a…
In the weeks before it declared independence, the Continental Congress was already hard at work building the institutions it would need to maintain the…