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===Battle of Bunker Hill=== |
===Battle of Bunker Hill=== |
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Salem, another hero of this event, fought with his company in the [[Battle of Bunker Hill]]. According to Samuel Swett, who chronicled the battle, Salem had mortally wounded [[Royal Marines]] officer [[John Pitcairn]] who died from a [[musket]] shot.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.voicesfortroops.org/content/publications-and-media/news-articles/2019-news-articles/Rising-Through-the-Ranks |title=MOAA - Rising Through the Ranks |website=www.voicesfortroops.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190726203345/http://www.voicesfortroops.org/content/publications-and-media/news-articles/2019-news-articles/Rising-Through-the-Ranks/ |archive-date=2019-07-26}} </ref> This has been disputed.<ref name="ANB">{{cite web|title=Salem, Peter|url=http://www.anb.org/articles/06/06-00893.html|website=American National Biography Online|publisher=Oxford University Press|access-date=24 March 2017|quote=The identification of the black soldier in Trumbull's painting has since been widely disputed, and other African Americans in the colonial forces have been proposed as models for the figure.}}</ref><ref name="davis">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1989/05/18/it-wasnt-peter-salem/ |title=It Wasn't Peter Salem |newspaper=The New York Review of Books (Letter to the Editor) |date=May 18, 1989 |author=Davis, David Brion |access-date= December 18, 2015}}</ref> About a dozen other free African Americans took part in the battle, including Phillip Abbot of Andover Mass{{KIA}},<ref>[https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofan02ando/page/572 |
Salem, another hero of this event, fought with his company in the [[Battle of Bunker Hill]]. According to Samuel Swett, who chronicled the battle, Salem had mortally wounded [[Royal Marines]] officer [[John Pitcairn]] who died from a [[musket]] shot.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.voicesfortroops.org/content/publications-and-media/news-articles/2019-news-articles/Rising-Through-the-Ranks |title=MOAA - Rising Through the Ranks |website=www.voicesfortroops.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190726203345/http://www.voicesfortroops.org/content/publications-and-media/news-articles/2019-news-articles/Rising-Through-the-Ranks/ |archive-date=2019-07-26}} </ref> This has been disputed.<ref name="ANB">{{cite web|title=Salem, Peter|url=http://www.anb.org/articles/06/06-00893.html|website=American National Biography Online|publisher=Oxford University Press|access-date=24 March 2017|quote=The identification of the black soldier in Trumbull's painting has since been widely disputed, and other African Americans in the colonial forces have been proposed as models for the figure.}}</ref><ref name="davis">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1989/05/18/it-wasnt-peter-salem/ |title=It Wasn't Peter Salem |newspaper=The New York Review of Books (Letter to the Editor) |date=May 18, 1989 |author=Davis, David Brion |access-date= December 18, 2015}}</ref> About a dozen other free African Americans took part in the battle, including Phillip Abbot of Andover Mass{{KIA}},<ref>[https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofan02ando/page/572 VItal records of Andover Mass p,573]</ref> [[Barzillai Lew]], [[Salem Poor]], Titus Coburn,<ref>[https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofan02ando/page/572 Died May 5,1821 age 81 Andover Mass Vital record .p.573]</ref> Alexander Ames, Cato Howe, and [[Seymour Burr]]. |
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Salem reenlisted for another year in the [[4th Continental Regiment]] on January 1, 1776. When that enlistment expired, he signed up for three years in the [[6th Massachusetts Regiment]] of Colonel Thomas Nixon, a brother of Colonel John Nixon. He was honorably discharged on December 31, 1779, having served a total of four years and eight months.<ref name="Revolutionary War pp. 743">''Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War.'' Vol. 13, pp. 743–744.</ref> |
Salem reenlisted for another year in the [[4th Continental Regiment]] on January 1, 1776. When that enlistment expired, he signed up for three years in the [[6th Massachusetts Regiment]] of Colonel Thomas Nixon, a brother of Colonel John Nixon. He was honorably discharged on December 31, 1779, having served a total of four years and eight months.<ref name="Revolutionary War pp. 743">''Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War.'' Vol. 13, pp. 743–744.</ref> |
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