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"In the language of the Holy Writ, there is a time for all things.
There is a time to preach and a time to fight. And now is the time
to fight." With those words Rev. John Muhlenberg stepped from his
pulpit, removed his clerical robe, and revealed the uniform of a
Colonial officer. He then marched off to war. These are stories
about ministers that became chaplains in the American army during
the Revolution. Most of these men were not content with just
administering to the spiritual needs of the troops, but they also
took up the musket for the cause of liberty. These ministers
provided eyewitness accounts of the Battles of Lexington and
Concord, life on a prison ship, the burning of New York City, the
Battle of Rhode Island, the execution of Major Andre, and many more
events. The dedication of these men can be summed up in the words
of thirty nine year old Chaplain Caleb Barnum as he lay dying on
his deathbed, "That if I had a thousand lives I would willing lay
them down on my country's cause."
At the time of the Revolutionary War, a fifth of the Colonial
population was African American. By 1779, 15 percent of the
Continental Army were former slaves, while the Navy recruited both
free men and slaves. More than 5000 black Americans fought for
independence in an integrated military-it would be the last until
the Korean War. The majority of Indian tribes sided with the
British yet some Native Americans rallied to the American cause and
suffered heavy losses. Of 26 Wampanoag enlistees from the small
town of Mashpee on Cape Cod, only one came home. Half of the
Pequots who went to war did not survive. Mohegans John and Samuel
Ashbow fought at Bunker Hill. Samuel was killed there-the first
Native American to die in the Revolution. This history recounts the
sacrifices made by forgotten people of color to gain independence
for the people who enslaved and extirpated them.
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