Unit 3: Lesson 15

He rode fourteen miles on good roads for some two hours, while Sybil Ludington road all night—nearly forty miles over cart tracks and rutted fields in the blackness of rural farm country.

"To have to lie, as I did almost every night on the cold and often wet ground without a blanket and with nothing but thin summer clothing was tedious...

Often they fought with muskets that lacked bayonets.

George Washington thanked her personally, and Alexander Hamilton wrote her a letter of appreciation.

Someone would have to go get them while the colonel stayed behind to organize them once they arrived.

One night they camped so close to a British warship that Joseph could overhear soldiers on board mocking the Americans.

With no time to lose, she had to reach all the men, taking the most efficient route possible.

A young man summons his courage and signs the enlistment roster than will make him a soldier in the Continental army.

I took up the pen, loaded it with the fatal charge, made several mimic imitations of writing my name, but took especial care not to touch the paper with the pen until an unlucky [friend] who was leaning over my shoulder gave my hand a strike which caused the pen to make a woeful scratch on the paper.

He was seated on a stool, reading some paper he'd discovered, when "all of a sudden there came such a peal of thunder from the British shipping that I thought my head would go with the sound."