FORT BELVOIR, Va. — The National Museum of the U.S. Army is celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War with a special exhibition featuring what may be the most extensive collection of artifacts from the war for independence ever assembled under one roof.
Four years in the making, “Call to Arms: The Soldier and the Revolutionary War” invites visitors to explore scores of rare relics related to the war for independence, many of them never before displayed in this country.
The exhibit begins with a beam from Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts — often referred to as the location of the “shot heard ‘round the world” and the site of the start of the revolution on the morning of April 19, 1775…