245 years ago today, farmer and politician Jack Jouett began his successful midnight ride to warn Thomas Jefferson, the Governor of Virginia of an impending British cavalry raid intended to capture him and his legislature toward the end of the American Revolutionary War. The Virginia patriot—later called the ‘Paul Revere of the South’—rode 40 miles to Charlottesville to warn Jefferson at Monticello, and the others further away, giving them time to head south where they set up a temporary capital in Staunton so they could continue the business of the state. READ more about this little known revolutionary hero... (1781)
