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Waterville’s Asa Redington One of George Washington’s honor guard by Jeff Stern
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s a member of General George Washington’s elite Honor Guard in the Revolutionary War, Asa Redington, American patriot and Waterville pioneer, met the father of our country several times. Near the end of the war, while Asa rested in a Princeton, New Jersey, infirmary recovering from smallpox, General Washington made his way through the crowded hall. Washington was so appreciative of Redington’s gallantry in battle that he ordered his personal physician to care for the stricken soldier. After Asa got back on his feet, he and a fellow Honor Guard member were
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busy cleaning Washington’s Princeton headquarters. The General offered the men a drink. In his memoirs, Redington
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notes, Washington delivered “a bottle of excellent spirits, which proved very acceptable.” You’d think close brushes with the already legendary leader of the Continental Army might go to a young soldier’s head. Not so with Asa Redington. In his typically self-effacing, eloquent prose, he writes, “I mention these trifling circumstances merely to show that the Commander-In-Chief of the American Army was above that false pride which too often accompanies men invested with rank and power.” In fact, in all his memoirs, Asa never mentions the Honor Guard outright, only once alluding to it obliquely, as if
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