The Virginia American Revolution VA250 Commission is a state commission that is encouraging counties and localities to participate in a celebration of the revolutionary events during the 1773-1776 era. Local celebrations can take place through the year 2026.
On Monday, May 1, the group met in the Middlesex County Historic Courthouse building in Saluda and discussed ways to educate and inform the public on what went on in Middlesex during the Revolutionary War.
Middlesex was just 35 miles from where the war ended at Yorktown and was a “feeder” county. Quartermasters from Washington’s army came to Middlesex to find food to feed the army. It was required that the quartermaster could take 10% of the beef, chickens and sheep from an owner. If a man had ten head of beef, the quartermaster would take one or 50 chickens, he would take 5 hens to help feed the American army. The bounty was documented by the quartermaster and owners were reimbursed after the war.
