***At Menotomy, the 2d inst. [i.e., this month] Capt. SAMUEL WHITTEMORE, Æt. 99.***
When I read the title to this thread I thought of this old man. rejected by the militia as too old, he went on a one man attack on the British.
Discharged his weapons, himself shot and bayoneted, left for dead he survived and NEVER regretted his actions that day.
Damned vigilante! Wonder if the Brits had skittles. sarc/off
A Dr. Tufts, I believe (seems like the Tufts family had a ton of physicians), had him brought into a tavern or a private home on a makeshift stretcher---a door---and considered his wounds so grave he didn't bother to do too much for him. But the old bastard survived to see the US Constitution go into effect and more. In Whittemore you have a fascinating character; a man who fought bravely for the English in King George's War, then the French and Indian War (probably where he got the antique weapons he used that day), and then ended up fighting against the English on April 19th.