was a farmer from connecticut and john greenwood who was the little fifer boy from boston and joseph hodgkins the massachusetts shoe sh shoe maker, and those people played a real part in that time, in that moment, we know because they wrote about it. you have to remember that all we know is what we have in diaries and letters. there was no correspondents covering the war, reporting what a terrific job alexander hamilton just did. nor were there artist correspondents. all we have are orderly books. other government records of various kinds and the diaries and letters. so, if somebody kept a diary or wrote a lot of letters, that really pours it out, tells you what it was like, describes the scene, describes his own feelings and describes the suffering and the hardships, then that person becomes a protagonist because that person's taking us into the time. i try as best i can to be of the moment in how i'm portraying what happened because i think that's intellectually more honest in a way in that these people don't know what's going to happen next any more than we do in our time. they don't know