Mutiny of the Connecticut Line
Mutiny of the Connecticut Line
MUTINY OF THE CONNECTICUT LINE. 25 May 1780. While in quarters at Basking Ridge, New Jersey, near Morristown, the Eighth Connecticut Regiment turned out about dusk on 25 May to protest a lack of food. There were no ringleaders in this spontaneous event, which spread to the Third, Fourth, and Sixth Connecticut Regiments as well. Colonel Walter Stewart of Pennsylvania mediated a settlement and the troops returned to their huts, although Colonel R. J. Meigs, acting brigade commander, had been accidentally bayoneted in the side. The historian Carl Van Doren has said, "The whole affair was soon over and afterwards disregarded" (Mutiny, pp. 22-23).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Van Doren, Carl. Mutiny: The Story of a Crisis in the Continental Army. New York: Viking, 1943.
revised by Robert K. Wright Jr.