Don't Shoot Part IV: Until You See The Whites of Their Eyes

The pension applications presented in this book are from the original pensions and the stories of their service are told by the men themselves. Many of the men didn’t live long enough to file a pension claim, some of the widows did it for their deceased husband and a few children filed because neither the soldier, nor his widow had filed for a pension. It was a long time before Congress passed the pension acts for the Revolutionary War service men. What was life like in the military service during the Revolutionary War? Much different than is it now, guaranteed. Included in this book is a journal kept by Lieutenant Beatty during the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign to clean out the troublesome Indians. It was a difficult war, very uncomfortable for the men. When they say they marched, they did, from place to place, in the cold and in the heat with no paved roads and sometimes with no shoes. This book has a lot of Bellinger’s from the Herkimer area, with their applications, which are interesting. James F. Morrison is uniquely qualified to research and document the service records of the service men and spends a great deal of time doing so. Just because a man served, doesn’t mean he necessarily did so. The documentation of the service is very important and detailed work. Once more Morrison has done solid research work which is invaluable to the researcher.