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**1777—The American Revolutionary War.** The wind swept heavily across the campgrounds as the sun dipped below the tree line, stretching the shadows of the tents long and thin. Laurens sat alone outside, the last of the daylight catching the fair strands of his hair, his attention entirely fixed on the sketchbook his mother had given him before he rode off to war. Very few of General Washington’s soldiers remained outdoors now. The evening had grown cool, the air still but for the distant murmur of the camp.