Carroll 250 Speaker Series: The Dark Winter of 1776-1777
Exploration Commons At 50 East 50 East Main Street, Westminster, MD, United StatesPresent by John Laycock It is Christmas 1776, and all is not well for George Washington and his Continental Army. They have suffered a string of defeats and have retreated into New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Fighting through a blizzard and smallpox, Maryland Militia reinforcements start filling the New Jersey countryside. The story of Private Jacob
