The Last Men Standing: The 8th Virginia Regiment in the American Revolution

The strong survived. Nearly 800 men followed the famous ‘fighting parson,’ Colonel Peter Muhlenberg, into the Continental Army in 1776. Few of them remained at the end of the war. Meticulously researched and accurately told, this is the story of the Last Men Standing.

In colonial times, thousands of German and Irish immigrants settled in Virginia’s western reaches. The 8th Virginia Regiment was conceived as a way to recruit them. Men from Pittsburgh to Tennessee were collected into 10 rifle ...