Presenting The Colors Colonel Edward Lacey and Captain

Colonel Edward Lacey and Captain John McClure from Chester County

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The men who fell and bled under its folds remained true to Miss Landers’ request

a Fishing Creek militiaman named John Carroll

Massachusetts Minuteman

Presenting The Colors Colonel Edward Lacey and Captain350 Signed Numbered Overall: 31. 5" x 24. 25" Image: 27" x 20. 25" $225. 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 cornerstone