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The Last Muster: Images of the Revolutionary War Generation

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An amazing photographic addition to the history of the early Republic

“I wondered if it used to be imaginable to use photographic and documentary evidence to re-create the first generation of Americans―those men, women, and children bound together by having lived all over the Revolutionary War. . . .Whilst there were many images in public collections or owned by collectors, I knew through my work as a curator and as a collector that there have been likely even more in private circle of relatives collections.”―from the Introduction

A remarkable work of documentary history, The Last Muster is a collection of rare nineteenth-century photographic images―primarily daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and carte des visite paper photographs―of the Revolutionary War generation. This abnormal collection of images assigns faces to an un-illustrated war and tells the stories of our nation’s founding fathers and mothers, updating and supplementing research last collected and published over a century ago.

In her comprehensive introduction, creator Maureen Taylor explains how she came to this project and collected the images. She also describes her exhaustive primary source research involved in dating and identifying each and every image and investigating the story and genealogy of each and every subject. The array of seventy images is expansive and includes veterans, loyalists, Native Americans, African Americans, children who witnessed battles and aided soldiers, and women who nursed the wounded and even took up arms themselves. Despite the fact that the faces that gaze at the reader are old and wizened, the stories they tell are of youthful bravery in the young days of the republic.

The Last Muster is a much-needed contribution to the history of the American Revolution, the early Republic, and the history of photography. Through these portraits and the accompanying narrative, readers will have the opportunity to relive the Revolutionary War.


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