REVOLUTIONARY WAR MUSKET BALLS AND SHOT FROM “CONNECTICUT VILLAGE” CAMP IN NEW YORK

REVOLUTIONARY WAR MUSKET BALLS AND SHOT FROM “CONNECTICUT VILLAGE” CAMP IN NEW YORK

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Item Code: 236-1325

This lot of lead projectiles includes three large .69 caliber musket balls, one smaller approx. .50 caliber rifle or pistol ball, and three buckshot. All recovered by author/publisher Dean Thomas (with Wendell Lang).

Connecticut Village (also known as the Connecticut Camps) was a winter encampment for the Connecticut Division of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Located on the east side of the Hudson River in the Hudson Highlands of New York, it served as a primary defensive position guarding West Point. The camp was occupied primarily during the grueling winters of 1780–1781 and 1781–1782. General George Washington positioned the Connecticut brigades here to secure the "key to the continent"—the Hudson River corridor—preventing British forces from cutting New England off from the rest of the colonies. Here, soldiers constructed rows of log cabins carved into the hillsides to survive the freezing winters. By the early 1900s, the camp had been reclaimed by nature and its exact location forgotten. In 1919, the Field Exploration Committee of the New York Historical Society (W.L. Calver and R.P. Bolton) successfully rediscovered Connecticut Village alongside other forgotten Highland camps like Camp Hempstead Huts and New Boston. Digs at the site unearthed collapsed stone hearths, weapons fragments, and rare military buttons belonging to the Connecticut and Massachusetts troops who lived and died there.  [jet][ph:L]

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