Presenting The Colors - Artist Proof It was nearly eighty miles

It was nearly eighty miles to Knoxville

Boston silversmith and patriot alarm rider Paul Revere rode into the town of Lexington

"He must have been a direct descendant of

and was garrisoned by approximately 150 troops

Presenting The Colors - Artist Proof It was nearly eighty milesArtist Proof 50 Signed Numbered Overall: 31. 5" x 24. 25" Image: 27" x 20. 25" $250. 00 By 1860, the long debate over how to defend the United States remained. Some still argued for a standing professional army with a trained officer corps, while others saw this as tyranny, remindful of the British regulars from the Revolutionary War era. As the debate raged, the militia system, backed by Constitutional guarantees and the Militia Act of 1792, was the