And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Carved Navy Pocketknife, carved on one side “1st MATE.PORTERS GUNBT./TAKEN FROM A YANKEE ON THE/USS HARTFORD/1864” with foliate designs,
To the Victor Go the Spoils ...
ReplyDeleteSemi Barlow look.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Hartford_(1858)
ReplyDeleteJohn W. "Jack" Hinson
ReplyDeletethe only time a US Navy vessel surrendered to one man -
one Tennessean with a rifle. yall read the book