Tea Party Site Praises Battle of Springfield Hero Rev. Caldwell

No matter what your personal politics are, you should recognize one positive aspect to the Tea Party movement; it’s brought a lot more visibility for the Revolutionary War. Tri-corner hats are back in fashion and stories from the end of the colonial era are popping up on blogs.

 Case in point: This week, a Tea Party site from Iowa ran a fairly in depth profile of Rev. Caldwell and devoted a lot of space to Caldwell’s experience in the Battle of Springfield, where, as Springfield resident know, he rallied the troops to use hymnal pages as wadding for muskets by saying ““Now, boys, give ‘em Watts! Give ‘em Watts!”

 Read the full story: The Fighting Parson of the Revolutionary War.