Photographer Juliette Carignan of Belmont kindly alerted me to her gallery of handsome photographs from this summer’s “Now We Are One” reenactment at Minute Man National Historical Park. Above is Bob Allegretto as one of the mounted officers trying to organize the Continental Army there.
In addition, Juliette’s father Gerry Carignan has made some galleries of the same event available for public viewing, including this image of a young colonial.
The gallery shows Benedict Arnold in a red coat... Is this an accurate portrayal on Arnold in 1775? I've always imagined him in a Connecticut blue coat like that of Putnam or Chester at Bunker Hill.
ReplyDeleteI try to leave all uniform questions for the reenactors.
ReplyDeleteWe (the other reenactors that day) were told, that in 1775 Arnold was a member of a unit in Connecticut which wore a red iniform - I believe it was the Govenor's Foot Guard.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the links - the "young colonial" is my son!
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