In this episode, historian and author Gabriel Neville joins us to discuss his book The Last Men Standing: The 8th Virginia and the Birth of the American Frontier.
Nearly 800 men followed the “Fighting Parson,” Colonel Peter Muhlenberg, into the Continental Army in 1776—but few remained by the end of the Revolution. Drawn from Virginia’s western frontier—stretching from Pittsburgh to what would become Kentucky and Tennessee—these men helped shape the fight for independence and the early settlement of America’s frontier.
Neville shares how he pieced together their story from rare letters, archives, and forgotten records, offering new insight into major battles like Sullivan’s Island, Germantown, and Monmouth, and into the lives of soldiers who went on to settle the American West.
This is the remarkable tale of the 8th Virginia Regiment, the men who endured the Revolution’s harshest campaigns—and the legacy they left behind in Kentucky and beyond.
Book: https://www.amazon.com/Last-Men-Standing-Virginia-Revolution/dp/1804516724
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In this episode, historian and author Gabriel Neville joins us to discuss his book The Last Men Standing: The 8th Virginia and the Birth of the American Frontier.
Nearly 800 men followed the “Fighting Parson,” Colonel Peter Muhlenberg, into the Continental Army in 1776—but few remained by the end of the Revolution. Drawn from Virginia’s western frontier—stretching from Pittsburgh to what would become Kentucky and Tennessee—these men helped shape the fight for independence and the early settlement of America’s frontier.
Neville shares how he pieced together their story from rare letters, archives, and forgotten records, offering new insight into major battles like Sullivan’s Island, Germantown, and Monmouth, and into the lives of soldiers who went on to settle the American West.
This is the remarkable tale of the 8th Virginia Regiment, the men who endured the Revolution’s harshest campaigns—and the legacy they left behind in Kentucky and beyond.
Book: https://www.amazon.com/Last-Men-Standing-Virginia-Revolution/dp/1804516724
8thVirginia.com
https://linktr.ee/Kyhistorypod
This episode is a special feed swap with Kentucky Wide, a podcast production of The Frazier History Museum.
General William “Bull” Nelson of Mason County, secretly fought to keep Kentucky in the Union and was then famously murdered in Louisville's Galt House Hotel by Jefferson Davis (not the Jefferson Davis you’re thinking of).
Camp Nelson in Jessamine County, Kentucky, was named in his honor. The incredible historic site is now remembered for the hundreds of enlistments of Kentuckians into the U.S. Colored Troops. Poet Frank X Walker has written a collection of poems touching on these people and moments called Load in Nine Times—several of which are included in this episode covering both the history and his modern relationship with Camp Nelson.
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In this episode, historian and author Gabriel Neville joins us to discuss his book The Last Men Standing: The 8th Virginia and the Birth of the American Frontier.
Nearly 800 men followed the “Fighting Parson,” Colonel Peter Muhlenberg, into the Continental Army in 1776—but few remained by the end of the Revolution. Drawn from Virginia’s western frontier—stretching from Pittsburgh to what would become Kentucky and Tennessee—these men helped shape the fight for independence and the early settlement of America’s frontier.
Neville shares how he pieced together their story from rare letters, archives, and forgotten records, offering new insight into major battles like Sullivan’s Island, Germantown, and Monmouth, and into the lives of soldiers who went on to settle the American West.
This is the remarkable tale of the 8th Virginia Regiment, the men who endured the Revolution’s harshest campaigns—and the legacy they left behind in Kentucky and beyond.
Book: https://www.amazon.com/Last-Men-Standing-Virginia-Revolution/dp/1804516724
8thVirginia.com
https://linktr.ee/Kyhistorypod
