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The Last Muster - Images of the Revolutionary War Generation (Hardcover)
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The Last Muster - Images of the Revolutionary War Generation (Hardcover)
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"I wondered if it was possible to use photographic and documentary
evidence to re-create the first generation of Americans-those men,
women, and children bound together by having lived during the
Revolutionary War. . . .While there were many images in public
collections or owned by collectors, I knew through my work as a
curator and as a collector that there were likely even more in
private family collections."-from the Introduction. A remarkable
work of documentary history, The Last Muster is a collection of
rare nineteenth-century photographic images-primarily
daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and `carte des visite' paper
photographs-of the Revolutionary War generation. This extraordinary
collection of images assigns faces to an un-illustrated war and
tells the stories of our nation's founding fathers and mothers,
updating and supplementing research last collected and published
over a century ago. In her comprehensive introduction, author
Maureen Taylor explains how she came to this project and collected
the images. She also describes her exhaustive primary source
research involved in dating and identifying each image and
investigating the story and genealogy of each subject. The array of
seventy images is expansive and includes veterans, loyalists,
Native Americans, African Americans, children who witnessed battles
and aided soldiers, and women who nursed the wounded and even took
up arms themselves. Although the faces that gaze at the reader are
old and wizened, the stories they tell are of youthful bravery in
the young days of the republic. The Last Muster is a much-needed
contribution to the history of the American Revolution, the early
Republic, and the history of photography. Through these portraits
and the accompanying narrative, readers will have the opportunity
to relive the Revolutionary War. Maureen Taylor is an
internationally known expert on photo identification. She travels
extensively giving presentations on photo identification, photo
preservation, and family history. She has been featured in The Wall
Street Journal and on NBC's Today Show, ABC's The View, and NPR.
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