Turn out the Guard

The men to be under arms Drelling and Training to the other Necessary Discipline… after three for one Hour or an Hour & a half at which Times the long Rolls are to beat for Assembling the men. - Orderly Book of the Second Virginia Regiment, 1775.

In the fall of 1775, Williamsburg’s focus shifted to war. Witness members of the newly formed 2nd Virginia Regiment train to become soldiers in the shadow of the Public Magazine, the building that sparked revolution in Virginia. Experience the sounds and smells of Virginia’s march towards revolution as the men demonstrate the 1764 Manual of Arms. Look out for the flames of rebellion in the muzzle’s flash.