Conrad Heyer
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Conrad Heyer was an American farmer, veteran of the American Revolutionary War, and centenarian. He is often credited as being the earliest-born person to have been photographed alive, although severa
Heyer, c. 1852 daguerreotype
Continental Army
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The Continental Army was the army of the United Colonies representing the Thirteen Colonies and later the United States during the American Revolutionary War. It was formed on June 14, 1775, by a reso
Conrad Heyer
…1772/1773 to a German immigrant. In his youth, Heyer was a member of the German Lutheran Church. During the American Revolution, Heyer fought for the Continental Army in the 25th Regiment, according to his pension filed in 1819 and several witnesses. He enlisted in December 1775 and was honorably discharged a year…
George Washington, appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army on June 15, 1775, by the Second Continental Congress
An illustration of the Continental Army's Assistant Quartermaster General John Parke and Ezekiel Cheever, civilian commissary of artillery, giving instructions to a captain of artillery on the docks of New London, Connecticut in 1776
James Monroe, along with George Washington, one of the two future U.S. presidents who served in the Continental Army
A 1778 illustration showing a Stockbridge Mohican Indian patriot soldier with the Stockbridge Militia in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, taken from Hessian officer Johann Von Ewald's war diary