Randy, I've been pushing the Committee of Safety idea for years. Had family who participated in some of the original committees and have read what they wrote about the subject. Google Mecklenburg Declaration.
And, your right about the book. My copy is getting kind of dog eared too.
"The time for war has not yet come, but it will come and that soon, and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." Gen. T.J. Jackson, March 1861
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