A 100-year-old veteran of the Revolutionary War poses in his uniform, 1860.
In this photo, we see Nicholas Veeder in his Revolutionary War uniform, sitting in front of a local attraction known as the Old Fort or "Veeder's Fort." The stone building housed a collection of artifacts from the war -- including the muskets and "Schenectady Liberty Flag" on display here and was run as a kind of museum by Veeder himself. Known affectionately as "the old soldier," Veeder was a character who led Scotia's annual 4th of July parade in his uniform, and was said to have danced to his favorite old jig, "Soldier's Joy," on his 100th birthday in 1861. He died in 1862.
Our ROTC Infantry Drill Regulation Team used to stack arms like that.
ReplyDeleteGod bless this old timer.
ReplyDeleteProbably died waiting on his pension.
ReplyDeleteYankee or Reb?
ReplyDeleteHello??? Revolutionary War. American colonists and French ... against the Brits and Germans.
DeleteOur edumacashun sistim failed you....or you failed it.
DeleteAmerican Colonists and NOT ANY FUCKING FRENCH. The system failed you too. This popular bullshit about the French is all revisionist bullshit. Not one French soldier was killed in any action in the revolutionary war.
DeleteThe French had a few advisors that rode with some Generals, there is no record of them ever leading a charge or firing a single shot.
We did have a foreign drill sergeant of sorts who was a kraut and most certainly gets the credit for our changes in drilling and order and was instrumental in our units cracking the British after Valley Forge.
Here is what the French did, their navy showed up at the last minute after Washington corned the last Redcoat army and prevented them from escaping by sea.
That is it period!
Revolutionary Veteran would be a Yankee Reb. 🤣
ReplyDeletePure badass
ReplyDeleteWOW! Thanks for this piece of history. I have been through Scotia a number of times in my life. It is near to Schenectady, NY.
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