The minutemen tended to be younger and NOT have much responsibility for families and property. Where the Militia was a home guard, Minutemen were a strike force.
@@ModernFrontiersman haha I always thought of it that way. If you can’t live out of your pack for extended periods and ruck long distances then ok you may not be a Minutemen per say but still a militiamen
Good topic would be the Culpepper Minutemen. They were a Militia group that drilled in military tactics and trained to respond to emergencies "at a minute's notice".
My ancestors were members of the “green mountain boys” and one night they snuck over a lake and took fort Ticonderoga a mighty fortress in NY from the British without firing a shot . The artillery from the fort was then hauled by hand to eventually aid in the battle of Saratoga a turning point in our war for independence at least that’s what the old diaries from the 1700s say
An old movie "Drums Along the Mohawk" (a valley alongside the Hudson River in NYS) depicts the militia/minuteman military system among the colonists, featuring big stars of the 1930s like Henry Fonda, Claudette Colbert, Ward Bond, and a villainous John Carradine as a British agent inciting and leading the Indian tribes to attack the Americans. Many aspects of frontier life are depictrd such as rugged individualistic self reliance with community cooperation coming together as neighbors building a newcomer's homestead house and barn overnight.
We must also realize that the militia and the minute men were both a necessary element during that time period. Nowadays they will be considered domestic terrorists if they were to involve themselves in a domestic uprising. Unless it is a state sponsored unit I would personally steer clear of any roughshot militia.
