Losses

"They took Fathers fine horse afterward for a fine. They had heavy fines laid on everybody to support the war. Friends wouldn’t pay fines so they took what they wanted and they took the finest horse. In the time of war and afterwards the collector used to come to get their tax. Friends wouldn’t pay the war tax so they took cows and anything they pleased. . . . . They could take beds, looking-glasses, bureaus and anything at all. One night Adam, Billy and I were coming home from school and we met two men, one carrying a big look-glass under his arm. Adam hallowed out to them: ‘That’s our big looking-glass.’"

Phebe Thomas

Haversacks were an important piece of equipment for the Revolutionary War soldier. Made of linen with a three button flap, the haversack held a soldier’s food ration for the day as well as other small items like gun cleaning supplies and eating utensils.