Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Bush fighting for Dummies

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I recently attended a living history event where instruction was to be given on "Bush fighting" or "Woods discipline", a...
Monday, September 8, 2025

In memoriam: Jay M. Howlett

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  Portrait of Jay Howlett by Photographer Mark Tucker   It is with great sadness that I note the passing of my friend Jay Howlett last mont...
Thursday, July 3, 2025

2025 Arsenals of History Symposium at the National Museum of the US Army

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      Registration and information is here .    20–22 August, 2025 National Museum of the United States Army. Fort Belvoir, Virginia      Gr...
Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Book review: Settle's "The Virginia Continental Line in the Revolution's Southern Campaigns "

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  Due to wartime consolidations, unit transfers, and the capture of almost all of Virginia's Continental troops at the fall of Charlesto...
Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Massachusetts Provincial Small Arms of the Louisbourg Expedition- 1745

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  My new article "Massachusetts Provincial Small Arms of the Louisbourg Expedition- 1745" is featured in the June issue of ...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Making a DIY Revolutionary War old construction/soft Cartridge pouch

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Thomas Jefferson's 1781 Circular-Letter to the County Lieutenants of Virginia pleaded that: "...every man who has or can procur...
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

"Paint, or Colour with Bark": Dyed hunting shirts in Revolutionary America

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 Although the majority of hunting shirts were likely made from natural unbleached or "brown" and white linen, many references to ...