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What all do you know about Washington’s aide William Grayson?

It has been years since i got this ask that this has been sitting in my drafts. So rather than letting it continue to sit i’m just going to publish it now as it is. I’m very busy but if i find myself with the time and energy now that i am out of grad school I will come back with a part two. But it has been So Long that my mental file cabinets full of information about the aides has rusted shut so i’ll have to go back through all of my material again to refresh myself and relern where all of my research is because past me was very very bad at organizing things for posterity rip. But it looks like i hit a good stopping point on his life when i was working on this back in the day. A quick summary: William Grayson officially joined Washington’s staff as an aide-de-camp on August 24th, 1776 [x] and served until he, like most of Washington’s staff at the time, was awarded a line command and given orders to raise one of Congress’ 16 Additional regiments in January of 1777. He would go on to become one of the first two U.S. senators from Virginia. I’ll be going in-depth below the break since this is a little bit of a monster:

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#i'm actually the one who sent this in years from what account i don't even remember #but this is so interesting #i was trying to gather info about some of washington's lesser known aides at the time and for some reason #grayson seemed to have barely any info out there #and if you wanted to find anything #including books #your best shot was keywords and his name and even then i didn't get a lot of sources #i managed to find things here and there though

quiverlikeacandleonfire

I've found some editing apps and tried taking pictures of the film just to see how the first roll came out. The pics of the film are pretty low quality, but I am really looking forward to getting some prints of these

These are only a select few, and again I apologize for the awful quality, but for my first time developing my own film I am psyched about the results

quiverlikeacandleonfire

With the roll that the fourth picture was in, the square lights are actually from light getting in while I was trying to get the roll back into the canister. I had made the mistake of trying to roll it back in the camera when I was outside, and the cold caused the film to get brittle and break. I didn't have my changing bag with me, so I had to cram it into the plastic container, sitting in a dark bathroom. Unfortunately, a little bit of light had gotten in through the crack in the door, and the the film cast a shadow on itself, making that pattern and I think it lead to pretty cool effect

#these are really good #they give off such a vintage vibe too #and ur good at angles #new photographers #new editors #boosting #aes #photography #editing

iconicshrub

hey amrev folks !!

does anyone know if there are any physical descriptions of Tench Tilghman or Richard Kidder Meade anywhere? like hair/eye color or anything like that?

spy-355

So from what I could find for Tilghman, I have this:

I found more than one of these descriptions and it’s the same one each time:

I also found a quote of a diary entry:

For Meade there’s really nothing, but revolutionary-pirate did an analysis of possibilities for what Meade may have looked like. I didn’t read all of it, for I’m a little short on time at the moment, but I was able to skim through. There’s like, a general consensus. I hope something there can help you get an idea.

Here’s the link to that:

https://revolutionary-pirate.tumblr.com/post/163177414150/what-did-richard-kidder-meade-look-like