Daily Life Series

 

1758: The 78^th Highlands' Regiment of Foot

 

Duration:

1 minute, 15 seconds

A typical day at the British Fort Stanwix during the French & Indian War. All excerpts have been taken from the accounts of the soldiers who lived there.

 

Duration:

1 minute, 24 seconds

A typical day at the British Fort Stanwix during the French & Indian War. All excerpts have been taken from the accounts of the soldiers who lived there.

 

1777: The 3^rd NY Regiment

 

Duration:

1 minute, 27 seconds

A typical day at the American Fort Schuyler during the Revolutionary War. All excerpts have been taken from the accounts of the soldiers who lived there.

 

Duration:

1 minute, 20 seconds

A typical day at the American Fort Schuyler during the Revolutionary War. All excerpts have been taken from the accounts of the soldiers who lived there.

 

1779: The 1st NY Regiment

 

Duration:

1 minute, 33 seconds

What was a typical day at Fort Schuyler during the American Revolution? Watch and find out! All entries taken from the Orderly Book of the 1st NY Regiment.

 

1781: The 4^th NY Regiment

 

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Fort Stanwix National Monument Presents: A Day With the 4th NY, Fort Schuyler 1781

*Fife and drum music*

Monday, February 18, 1781 All the rooms and cabins in the garrison are to be numbered, beginning with all the officers, and a return made of them to the commandant tomorrow. To be included: In what order, how many men they will contain, and by whom they are occupied.

*Drumbeat plays* Friday, December 1, 1781 If at any time it should happen that a fire breaks out in the garrison, upon the beating of the long roll from the guard house, both officers and men will turn out.

*Fife and drum music* The quarter master will order two men from the regiment to clean the chimneys every fourth day of the month, which will be paid for their work by the Assistant department quartermaster general.

Sunday, January 14, 1781 The commissary directed to issue to the officers, their weekly allowance of rum upon their order, agreeable to his excellency General George Washington’s orders of the 28th of August 1780.

*Fife and drum music continues* Thursday February 8, 1781 The colonel being apprehensive that the beef on hand will not last the garrison on full allowance until a supply can arrive. He his therefore under the disagreeable necessity of ordering that only a half-pound of beef and 1 ½ pounds bread be issued per day until further orders, and assures the troops that the deficiency will be made up to them.

*Fife and drum music fades*

Duration:

2 minutes, 5 seconds

What was life like at American Fort Schuyler towards the end of the American Revolution? Learn more by watching!