![]() ![]() ![]() The Revolution’s Last Men: The Stories Behind the Photographs by historian Don N. The result is a new perspective on the actual service of these soldiers, from enlistment to discharge, along with new details of their relatively quiet postwar lives. ![]() Now for the first time the military careers of these men have been researched in detail using a wide range of primary sources. Their images have captivated generations since then but-through a combination of faded memories and the interviewer’s patriotic agenda-the biographies accompanying these amazing photographs were garbled and distorted, containing information that ranged from inaccurate to implausible. Six of these men were photographed and interviewed for a book by Reverend E. ![]() The Stories of the Final Six Surviving Soldiers Who Fought in the American Revolutionĭuring the Civil War that threatened to tear the United States apart came the realization that only a handful of veterans of the American Revolution still survived-men who had fought the war that created the nation. ![]()
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