LEGENDS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

This week, our heads swimming with facts and dates of Bullis history, we decided to take a break from that research and spend some more time with the books in this collection. And since it's been 236 years this week since General George Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts, we focused on him.

 Many books have been written about General Washington and the Revolutionary War. (A search of one online seller produced 4,447 results of books on that subject.) However, we think we found a unique volume on the Bullis Room shelves, one that we'd overlooked in the past.

Titled Washington and his generals, or Legends of the American revolution, the book was written by George Lippard and published about 1847.  A series of historical pictures make up the contents of the book. Some of the chapter titles are:

Retreat - Washington's Agony

The Legend of General Agnew

Valley Forge

Andre the Spy

Nathan Hale

Anthony Wayne at Brandywine

Romance of the Revolution

The soldier Returning Home

The Memory of Alice

An Old Mansion in the Dark Dell

The Last Kiss

The Declaration: its source; its action upon mankind

The Message of the Bell to the World

We think you'll find a lot of good reading in this book. And you can access it online...and then stop by the Bullis Room to see the real thing.