On August 27, 1776, over the crackle of musket fire and the boom of cannon, the indomitable Major Mordecai Gist of the Maryland Line ordered his men forward. Shots tore through their ranks.
The Revolutionary War artifacts tell the story of what General Cornwallis tried to destroy forever—but couldn’t erase.
1776, adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Nikki Walsh, the museum curator at the park, also said there was plenty to learn from the lead-cast musket balls. Given their various sizes ...