linen hunting-shirts, dyed with leaves and the words ‘Liberty or Death,’ worked in large white letters on the breast.” They armed themselves with “fowling pieces and squirrel guns” and marched to Williamsburg, where tidewater Virginians were not thrilled to see them. One Culpeper man remembered, “the people hearing that we came from the backwoods, and seeing our savage-looking equipments, seemed as much afraid of us as if we had been Indians.”51
