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Revolutionary war fashion show comes to Corsicana Corsicana — Yards and yards of embroidered silk and damask, wool and linen swirled through the Kinsloe House as part of a special 1700s fashion show hosted by the James Blair Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution Wednesday. The creator of the dresses was Carolyn Schiewe of the Captain Molly Corbin Chapter of the DAR in Grapevine. Schiewe researched the dresses and then sewed them for herself and her friends. “Ladies during the revolutionary war were just as interested in fashion as we are today,” Schiewe explained. And although she had...

Coming to the close of Freeman's Vol III (of VII) biography of the General (Douglas Southall Freeman, George Washington, Volume III, Planter and Patriot, Scribners, New York, 1948), I came across the following footnote on page 576. Please note that the link I provided above is NOT to the 7-volume bio but rather the one-volume condensation by Harwell. The footnote (number 161) refers to a discussion in the text about arms being turned in by the militia after serving in Boston (so new unarmed recruits could use them) and going back to the farm:In the open country and the villages,...