Two hundred forty-five years ago today, Pvt. Martin Johnston, 3rd Virginia Regiment, and Pvt. Thomas Merriman, 3rd Virginia Regiment, learned that they and several thousand other Americans were fighting for a new country -- the United States of America.
Pvt. Johnston was an ancestor of my wife's, and Pvt. Merriman was one of mine. We also had direct ancestors in the 1861-65 war, another Martin Johnston of the 10th Texas Infantry and James Ward of the 11th Texas Cavalry and of the state Frontier Regiment.
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