Jack Jouett, the 'Paul Revere of the South,' Gets His Due

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA twenty-six-year-old civilian named Jack Jouett rode through the night in seventeen eighty-one to warn Virginia's legislature the British were coming, The Federalist reports.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorHe's called the Paul Revere of the South, and I think that's the nicest thing you can say about a man on a horse.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorJefferson and the legislators had already fled Richmond, and thanks to Jouett's warning, most of them got away.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorMost of them. Seven, reportedly, got caught, and I bet those seven still think he was a little late.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe ride went through briars and thickets so thick, the story goes, that it left him with scars on his face.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorFour hundred sixty thousand visitors a year, and I bet the gift shop doesn't even stock a horse.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorEasy. Virginia has held a Jack Jouett Day since nineteen forty, and a Louisa County elementary school carries his name.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorA school! That's real recognition. Nobody forgets a name they've been sent to the office under.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe horse is folklore, by the way, a mare named Sallie, though the author says nobody can be sure.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorWell, I'm just saying, Sallie, if that was her name, deserves a day too.