After months of desperately avoiding capture by redcoats, the Sage of Monticello found himself labeled a coward. No wonder he hated war. On a winter’s day nearly six years into America’s War for Independence, a messenger on horseback galloped toward Richmond carrying an urgent letter for Virginia’s governor. Ascending Shockoe Hill shortly after sunrise, the …
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