Jack I too recall the 200th of Yorktown. Steve, his lady friend and Ebeneezer spent a night with us on the way to the event. Ebeneezer caused some surprised...
Poor Ebby died in a fire at the Queens County Farmhouse if I remember correctly. I think the cart went up in that too. I recall Steve and I talking as to...
Gary, Steve still has the wagon. If I end up in his neighborhood I may have a look at it sometime. And, regarding the existence of donkeys in the colonies...
Dear List, Does anyone have a drum they would like to part with?? I'm seeking to acquire one, preferably not a new one, to be a practice drum for our unit.? If...
John You can find inexpensive rope tensioned snare drums made in Pakistan at many music shops and on Ebay. They need some tweaking to make them correct for the...
Mike and Group; Heard's Brigade and Ewings,I believe, were the last "reinforcements" to Ft Lee before the British Invasion at Huyler's Landing.Heard's ,was...
Scott, Right campaign - wrong engagement. Actually the chainman was killed in the engagement now called the "Groveland Ambuscade," about two weeks later in the...
Tom, Sounds like a night we may have to experience in the near future. Your humble ship mate, Bill Blair [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Greetings, Just a note about Donkeys/Asses and/or Mules pre-1800. From Gray's two volume History of Agriculture in Southern United States to 1860, "The ...
I stumbled upon a couple of tidbits of clothing information that might be useful to some. In early 1778, a corporal of the 42nd Regiment was tried by a general...
I was speaking to a colleague today who recently visited the newly acquired flag exhibit at Williamsburg. He mentioned that there was an image of a button...
John These sorta symbolic buttons were used a lot in the period during the war. There is another one nick named the "Snake and eggs" buttons that also may...
John, We ... I have a Townsend Grenedier drum that has been tweaked to make period appropriate by George Carroll I could part with. I also have one that he...
I'd recommend that you get directly in touch with Erik Goldstein, Curator of Mechanical Arts and Numismatics at Williamsburg. He's a collector in his own right...
John, I'm pretty sure this style of button is covered in "Military Buttons of the American Revolution" by Don Troiani. Todd Post 2d Virginia Regiment ...
Howdy, The Benjamin Warner knapsack is one of the few out there used by Continental troops. This pack is located at Fort Ticonderoga. Is there an image of...
Dear Friends, enemies, and comrades: I'm back active after about four years active with the Army and a serious illness ("I'm felling much better now."). I do...
To the List and the "DonkeySkinner" I note that the good folks at "Smoke & Fire Company ' have a pattern/plan for Carts and Wheels, Item # BC-08 This is a very...
Greetings! I am selling the following items. Prices include shipping and photos are available upon request. Please respond off-list. -Half-moon shaped...
... used by ... there ... anyone ... Patrick, The staff at Ti are quite accommodating so, you might want to contact Cris Fox, Curator of Collections, at the...
Timothy Pickering in his work, An Easy Plan of Discipline for a Militia had some excellent comments on giving commands: "'Tis of importance that the words of...
Ran across this while looking for something else. Should have remembered it as it's in a publication that I compiled! Anyway, to the question of how officers...
Henry Cooke sent me a written description with measurements done by someone else a few years ago. Right now I can't seem to find it, but we have been...
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