Iron County Record | 1967-02-23 | Page 3 | Authentic Book Aid History Study for North Elementary 5th Graders

! Huthentic Book Aid History Study For Horth Elementary 5th Graders cer for the troops to clean up their arms and persons in preparation for the "Proclamation "Proclama-tion of Independence" read to them the following day. Disciplinary action taken against offenders was also of interest. One entry indicated that a soldier had been caught I stealing. He was court mar-tialed mar-tialed and sentenced to be tied to a wooden horse with a heavy hea-vy yoke over his shoulders for ten days. Following that punishment pun-ishment the soldier was "drummed out of the corps and was further sentenced to be stripped to the waist and given 3') lashes if lie returned. The orderly book proved to make the Revolutionary War more important and interesting interest-ing to the students, Mr. Bowler Bow-ler reported. History of the Revolutionary War became a real thing for students of Qucnton Bowler's fifth grade at the North Elementary Ele-mentary School. An Authentic document of the War, ' an orderly book which was hand written with a quill pen, created wide interest for students. The class had the book available during a study of the Revolutionary War. Miss Pat Washburn, a reading observer ob-server from College of Southern South-ern Utah, brought the historically histori-cally significant document to class. The volume belongs to a roommate of Miss Washburn, Wash-burn, Diane Swanson of New York, also a CSU student, who has developed an interest in and acquired many items of historial interest. The orderly book was writ-tend writ-tend by Sgt. John Cowen in the year 177G. Entries in the book run from May of that year through November 17V . and contain information pertaining per-taining to Col. Lippett's Regiment Reg-iment of the Continental Army. Ar-my. In addition to the interest of the class in the material I contained in the important orderly or-derly book, the handwriting and letter characters also developed de-veloped wide interest for the students. One of the entries in the volume vol-ume made on July 1, 1776, contained an order given that day by the commanding offi-