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CULPEPER — Gov. Mills E. Godwin will be the guest speaker for Culpeper County’s “call to arms,” inaugural event of the county’s 13-month observance of the American Revolution Bicentennial.
He will speak at 7:30 p.m., Friday, June 20, on the Junior High School football field at a program commemorating the organization of the Culpeper Minute Men in 1775.
Gov. Godwin will be introduced by the Hon. D. French Slaughter, who represents Culpeper, Rappahannock, Orange and Madison counties in the House of Delegates of the Virginia General Assembly.
These counties furnished the men who comprised the Culpeper Minute Men battalion, the largest of 16 battalions authorized by the third Revolutionary Assembly in July, 1775/'for the better protection and defence of the country against invasions and insurrections.” The four counties will also furnish volunteers for the reenactment program next Friday.
Capt. John T. S. Kearns, U. S. Navy, Ret., chairman of the Culpeper County Bicentennial Commission, will be master of ceremonies for the commemorative event.
landing pomp and circumstance to the proceedings will l>e the First U. S. Army Band from Fort Meade, the Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps of Fort Myer, and a color guard from the U. S. Reserve, 80th Div., 3rd Bn., 1st Brigade. The cole guard, '•ompose-* of five Culpeper men, will carry the Stars and Stripes, the Virginia Flag, and the famous Culpeper Minute Men flag, featuring a rattlesnake, coiled ready to strike, and bearing the words, “Don’t tread on ine.” Also participating in the event will be the Culpeper County High School Marching Band and Choral Group. Neil LaGrow, soloist, will sing “The Star Spangled Banner.”
A skit, portraying the minutemen’s rallying to Patrick Henry’s “call to arms,” will feature authentic minuteman uniforms, flag, and revolutionary weapons. Among the honored guests on the rostrum will be the 11 living members of the Culpeper Minute Men Company which retained its identity until 1917, when it was absorbed in the 116th Infantry, 29th Division, during World War I. The surviving minutemen were members of the Virginia National Guard, Company B, 2nd Reg. Some were mustered into the Federal service for duty on the Mexican border in 1916; none was engaged in actual conflict.
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