Good ole' Private James Grant (Capt Abraham Kirkpatrick's Company, Col. Thomas Gaskins's Battalion, 1781). We reenact that company...Grant was court marshalled for shooting Capt. Kirkpatrick the eye near Bottom's Bridge, Virginia during a dispute involving Grant's wife. This is from a regimental history by Dr. Richard C. Bush: "That evening, violence erupted in the officers' area of the Virginia regiment. Between 9 and 10 p.m., Pvt. James Grant of the Virginia line walked into the tent of Capt. Abraham Kirkpatrick and shot him in the area of his left eye and temple because he believed that Kirkpatrick had been having an affair with his wife. Kirkpatrick screamed, and a Sergeant Bradshaw hurried to the scene. He came upon Grant and asked him who had fired the shot. Grant acknowledged that it was he, and that he wished he had shot his wife as well. Bradshaw led Grant toward Kirkpatrick's tent, and they ran into the captain between his tent and "Col. Gaskins's Marquee." Grant acknowledged to Kirkpatrick that he had fired the shot and why. Kirkpatrick claimed that "he and his Wife had parted that morning." Grant was taken to the guardhouse and court-martialed the next day. He pleaded guilty to the shooting, but was found not guilty of mutiny. On August 12, "a wet day," Grant was hanged. In the view of at least one Pennsylvania officer, however, Grant was "certainly justified" in the shooting." Record of Grant's court-martial, 8/9/81, Lafayette Papers 4:310 Can't be the same Private James Grant, though, as we show that he was hanged (or was he?)...A mystery, perhaps. Scott Smith Gaskins' Virga. Battalion of 1781 www.virginiacampaign.org/gaskins > James Grant was born in Virginia in 1755 and moved to South > Carolina around > 1790. He was a Soldier of the Revolution and served in Captain Francis > Kirkpatric's (sp) Company of volunteer horsemen. To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html