In This Article His Story A Childhood Spent in Other People’s Homes The Enlistment That Failed Becoming Robert Shurtliff A Soldier in Washington’s Army Wounded Near British-Held New York The Fever That Revealed Her Identity An Honorable Discharge The Making of a Revolutionary Legend Taking Her Story Before the Public Paul Revere Comes to Her … Read more
In This Article His Story The Minister’s Son Who Wanted to Fight A Fifteen-Year-Old Goes to War The Disastrous New York Campaign Returning to the Continental Army Under Fire at Fort Mifflin Hunger at Valley Forge The Heat and Gunfire at Monmouth Faith, Providence, and the Hungry Soldier Digging Toward the British at Yorktown The … Read more
In This Article His Story A Soldier with Two Names Six Years and Five Months Discharged by George Washington A Discharge That Was Not Yet Final Marriage and Life in Danvers A Widow’s Struggle for Recognition When a Name Stood in the Way From His Account Military Service Later Life & Burial Family & Descendants … Read more
In This Article His Story A Young Man from Danvers A Captain Ten Days Before War The Bloody Fighting at Menotomy Ammunition for Bunker Hill The Siege of Boston From Captain to Major General The Chocolate-Making General Two Fires and a New Beginning A Soldier in Public Office Remembering the Men of 1775 From His … Read more
