Today historian Rick Britton joins “Charlottesville Right Now”: Most Americans are familiar with the amazing coincidental deaths of Second President John Adams and Third President Thomas Jefferson on July 4, 1826, but how many remember yet another president who died on July 4? Interestingly, a fourth president almost passed away on July 4, and another was born on Independence Day, 1872, in Plymouth Notch, Vermont. This makes him, of course, according to the song, “a Yankee Doodle Dandy!”

Also: Rick Britton will be speaking on Cavalry in the American Civil War at the Senior Center on Wednesday July 13 at 6:oo pm. Talk is FREE & open to the public! – On campaign, Civil War cavalrymen were their army’s “eyes and ears,” on the battlefield they protected their army’s flanks, and were sometimes called upon to charge en masse. Come hear Civil War historian Rick Britton speak on the cavalry’s many and varied experiences!