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Artemas Ward of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
出版American Antiquarian Society, 2005
主題History / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
ISBN19295452589781929545254
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=AZ3HAAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Minutemen For Months: The Making of an American Revolutionary Army Before Washington, April 20-July 2, 1775JUSTIN FLORENCEDuring the brief period that General Artemas Ward was in command, he and his fellow leaders made a drastic impact on the immediate course of events of the Revolution by shifting the attitudes, motivations, and mindsets of the New Englanders in military service. Men, who on April 20, 1776, rushed to defend their hometowns, had by July 2, when George Washington took command of the troops, become part of an American army that was engaged in a war with the British in defense of the life, liberty, and properties not just of their townsmen, but of all Americans. General Artemas Ward: A Forgotten Revolutionary Remembered and Reinvented, 1800-1938REBECCA ANNE GOETZMembers of the Ward family of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, employed a variety of techniquesgenealogies, biographies, paintings, mausoleums, and even statutes to memorialize their distinguished ancestor, the Revolutionary General Artemas Ward. For over a century after his death in 1800, Wards descendants used his life and accomplishments in the complex creation of family, local, and ultimately national identity. The Wards are a unique and provocative case study in the uses of historical memory.