Corps of Sappers and Miners, 1782 (Connecticut soldier Joseph Plumb Martin)

Corps of Sappers and Miners, 1782 (Connecticut soldier Joseph Plumb Martin)Corps of Sappers and Miners, 1782 (Connecticut soldier Joseph Plumb Martin) 11" W x 17" H "I did three watercolor gouache paintings for historian Phillip Mead showing Connecticut soldier Joseph Plumb Martin at various points in his service during the revolution. For those don't know who Martin is he wrote the very best reminisces of a private soldier of the revolution. This study is him at the end of the war in the uniform of the Corps of Sappers and

Here Don Troiani shows the brave color bearer

Some regiments modified them by adding facings

John Carroll

Royal Marine Officer

fourteen were earned by soldiers who fought at New Market Heights

French Army

an officer

5th Virginia Regiment

After capturing most of the Southern Department of the American Continental army at Charleston

In 1778 the coats changed to red faced green from the previous green faced white

who were camped behind Williamson’s house

David Evans is the author of Sherman’s Horsemen and Random Acts of Kindness: True Stories of America’s Civil War