Mapping the negotiation
During the negotiations to end the Revolutionary War, all sides used a copy of the so-called Mitchell map. The red lines marked on the map were the agreed-upon...
Musician, Singer, and Singing Teacher
Pvt. Francis Adam Drew served 36 months as a fifer in Col. James Reed’s Second New Hampshire Regiment. In civilian life Drew was a musician, singer, and teacher....
National Cemetery in Yorktown, Virginia
Adjacent to the battlefield where the American Revolution ended in 1781 and surrounded by Civil War battlefields, Yorktown National Cemetery was established in 1866....
Philip Sell
Sixteen-year-old Pvt. Philip Sell served for 13 months in Capt. Peter Burris’s company of mounted infantry in the North Carolina line. He died in 1831 with the rank...
Posthumous widow’s pension
During the Revolutionary War, Pvt. Peter Booth served 17 months in the New York line. In 1838, four years after his wife, Mary, died, their descendants applied for a...
Print of Declaration
Print of the Declaration of Independence from the 1823 copper plate engraved by William J. Stone, printed to commemorate the American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976.
Recovering runaways
During the Revolutionary War, both sides promised freedom to slaves who were willing and able to fight. These offers of freedom varied greatly and were often...