Culpeper Minutemen Chapter Presentation to Gainsville Home School Connection

9 Oct 2019                                                  Gainsville, VA

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    Gainsville Home School Connection provides classes for specific topics to home school students.  Today Culpeper Minutemen Chapter members Bill Schwetke and 1st Vice President Charles Jameson, together with Fauquier Court House Chapter, DAR, member Cat Schwetke, made a presentation on the different ways our ancestors performed military service during the American Revolution.  The presentation started with an explanation of the Colonial Militia.  This was followed by presentations on the Independent Companies, the Minutemen, the Patriot Militia, the Continental Army, and the service of women as camp followers and even as soldiers.  Flags appropriate for the time and place of service were also presented.  The presenters were in appropriate attire for the service they presented.

Left to right: Bill Schwetke, Cat Schwetke, and Charles Jameson.