Tag: Samuel Whittemore

Posted on January 29, 2020January 28, 2020

Contributor Close-Up: Katie Turner Getty

What inspired you to start researching and writing about the Revolution? It was perhaps inevitable that I would end up studying the Revolution as I grew up in the Boston area and my dad started taking me to visit places like Lexington Green, Old North Bridge, and the Freedom Trail when I was three years […]

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Posted on June 6, 2017August 9, 2023

Before the Bayonetting: The Untold Story of Capt. Samuel Whittemore

Capt. Samuel Whittemore, a seventy-eight year old American farmer, became a legend on April 19, 1775 when he was shot in the face by British soldiers, bayoneted at least six times, and clubbed in the head with the butts of their muskets. Armed with a musket and horse pistol, Whittemore had crouched behind a wall […]

by Katie Turner Getty