- Author
- Bixler, Miriam Eyde.
- Date of Publication
- 1975.
been! The story goes that not only did he ob-
tain the rank of brigade fifer major but General Lafayette himself
presented the soldier with a silver fife in honor of his heroic play-
ing.
�Thomas Montgomery, in the Lancaster County Historical Socie-
ty Journal recounts that in 1825 when Lafayette was