Richard Mansergh St. George drew this sketch of a rifleman from Washington’s army. St. George accurately depicted the rifleman wearing a fringed linen hunting shirt. He inverted the revolutionary motto on the rifleman’s powder horn from “liberty or death” to “death or liberty,” perhaps to show contempt for his enemy. 

A Virginian Rifleman 
Drawn by Richard Mansergh St. George 
1777-1778 
Ink, Watercolor, Paper 
Courtesy of the Harlan Crow Library, Dallas, Texas

Richard Mansergh St. George drew this sketch of a rifleman from Washington’s army. St. George accurately depicted the rifleman wearing a fringed linen hunting shirt. He inverted the revolutionary motto on the rifleman’s powder horn from “liberty or death” to “death or liberty,” perhaps to show contempt for his enemy. 

A Virginian Rifleman 
Drawn by Richard Mansergh St. George 
1777-1778 
Ink, Watercolor, Paper 
Courtesy of the Harlan Crow Library, Dallas, Texas