First US Army Chaplain Killed, John Rosbrugh Honored

First US Army Chaplain Killed, John Rosbrugh Honored
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First US Army Chaplain Killed, John Rosbrugh Honored

This piece revisits the life and violent death of Rev. John Rosbrugh, the Revolutionary War chaplain who left his pulpit for the battlefield, and examines the path that led him from immigrant roots to a brutal end in Trenton in early 1777. John Rosbrugh came from a Scottish family that had resettled in Northern Ireland...