(1) Thanks to everyone for the support on yesterday's tweet on#British #soldiers who served at #Princeton during the #RevWar. Since folks seemed to like that, let's also take a look at a few gentlemen from the other side of the field. The soldiers of #Washington's Army. #History

(2) Spencer Anderson was from #Dumfries, #VA. He served in Capt. Philip R. F. Lee's company of the 3rd VA Regt. He was wounded above the eye at Princeton but continued on in the service until the end of 1777. His wound, however, troubled him well after the #Revolution.

(3) Working as a carpenter he began to suffer additionally. By 1818 his attorney stated "That he is by occupation a corse carpenter but that from his age the failure of his eye sight; and pains, he is unable to do half the work of an able bodied man,...

(4) and what he does do is not done in workman like manner That he has a wife named Susan in her seventy sixth year that they live with their son on whose hospitality they are entirely dependant".

(5) Thomas Hubbard was serving in the 1st VA Regt. He later recalled "Near midnight Genl Washington left a few men to keep up fires, and marched out upon Princetown, attacked and defeated the British at Princetown early in the morning.

(6) In this battle Genl Mercer, commander of the Brigade was killed; and Capt Fleming & Lieut Yates fell close by me. I was struck with a musket shot which broke two ribs but did not enter the hollow." He later moved to #Alabama and met with hard financial times.

(7) In his request for a pension he wrote; "My rights have long been withheld by a seeming parsimonious government, but which have been wasting millions upon the present generation; and although at this late time, they have offered this relief,...

(8) yet if your department are so hard to convince of facts as to delay your conclusions much longer, I shall probably exit from this world without your aid."

(9) Pierce Dant Hamblin was from #Charlotte County, #Virginia. He served in the 4th VA Regt and remembered later that; "Thence we started to Princeton but we met the British and returned to Trenton here we had a cannonade...

(10) During the night after this we crossed a creek and took up the other side and went to Princeton – there we had a fight and took some of the British and carried them to Morristown."

(11) William Stark was from #Dinwiddie County. He served as an officer in the 6th VA Regt. He later recalled; "we soon again crossed the River & took a position between Trenton & Princeton, at the latter place worthy chief part of General Howe's Army...

(12) which Army after a few days advanced on us & pursued us to Trenton from which place General Washington retreated in the night & attacked the British Garrison at Princeton and carried it by killing & taking almost the whole of said Garrison.

(13) This I think was on the 3rd of January 1777." His commanding officer later wrote of his service that; "that he was an officer in whom the men of the Company had great confidence & whom they would willingly have followed through any difficulties or dangers.

(14) The difficulties of those times were too well known to need any description here"

(15) Isham Brown served in the 4th VA. He survived Princeton and was discharged in 1778 at #Morristown. By 1819 he was living in #TN where he was "is in reduced
circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support."