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 ...
Sunday, January 5, 2025

Upcoming F&I conference: "Washington's First War" starting 2/14/25

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        Washington's First War: The Great War for Empire on the American Frontier   The George Washington Hotel, Winchester, Virginia ...
Tuesday, December 17, 2024

"fine Fowling Pieces...of Richd & Wm Wilson & Compy" for South Carolina 1763

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 A 1763 shipment to Charleston, South Carolina for twelve fowling pieces of varied quality and price from the Wilson firm can be found in t...
Friday, October 11, 2024

New Article on the Material culture of Dunmore's War

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  M y recent work on the material culture of Dunmore's War is in print, ju st in time for the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Point...