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You Sir, are going home

Orders 29-30 November 1756

You Sir, are going home.

Hell yeah.

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Sketch by Jim Moyer

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Here's

a list of drafts

of 4 Dec 1756,

recruited

from many of the counties

who served here

in Winchester VA

as Fort Loudoun

was being built.

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And just imagine the delight of that?

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They had more than 25 miles

to walk home

but then they didn't care.

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Lets order a count of the drafts Nov 29-30, 1756

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[Winchester, 4 December 1756]

List of Drafts discharged from the Virginia Regiment; having served to the 1st December, according to Act of Assembly.

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List of drafts okay to go home.

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And here's the law saying they were only serving from May to December 1, 1756.

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By Jim Moyer, updated 11/25/2020

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