I chose this book specifically because it mentions Washington's Life Guard, and elite group of men chosen specifically to protect and defend General Washington. Not many books are written about or mention his Life Guard which is unfortunate because of their very special role and duty. My interest...
1858 explores the events and personalities of the year that would send the America's North and South on a collision course culminating in the slaughter of 630,000 of the nation's young men, a greater number than died in any other American conflict. The record of that year is told in seven separat...
They spent a few days with Madison's sister Nelly; were in limbo for a week while Dolley fought off an attack of the flu; and then drove back to the nation's capital, Philadelphia, where Madison quickly returned to his duties as a congressman, political operative, and close friend to President Wa...
They reached Brown County, Ohio, after a dangerous crossing of the swirling Ohio River near the town of Ripley. Price—a stout, five-feet-eight-inch tall man in his twenties with a deformed left foot—and his companions met a Quaker on the Ohio side of the river that night. The Quaker turned out to...
. .” Lieutenant James McMichael: The Poet The road to Valley Forge began just before dinner on September 2, 1777, for Lieutenant James McMichael of the Pennsylvania State Regiment, now renamed the Thirteenth Pennsylvania Riflemen. On that day McMichael’s regiment camped near Wilmingto...