A Teenager Goes to War: Henry Bradford Joins the Revolution

Oil painting of a teenage Continental Army recruit, c. 1775, seen from behind in a Virginia tailor's doorway, looking out toward a distant muster field where soldiers gather.

Before he built the first brick house in Hendersonville, Henry Bradford was a seventeen-year-old tailor’s apprentice who set down his needle to join the 3rd Virginia Regiment. It’s the story of how a Virginia teenager answered the Revolution’s call, and why his choice still matters at America’s 250th.

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