Bennington, VT
2 first-person accounts from the Revolutionary era.
Historical Voices
General John Stark
Tonight We Are All Widows or We Are Not
What Stark said before the battle has been polished into something more quotable than anything a militia general was likely to say in a field in August 1777. The version that entered history — that th...
Modern Voices
What the Prisoners Saw
The Hessian prisoners taken at Bennington — more than 600 of them — were marched through Vermont and Massachusetts to detention camps. What the communities along that route saw mattered: not rumored v...
