Sybil Ludington: Discovering the Life of a Revolutionary War Hero

On April 26, 1777, an icy, wind-driven rain ripped across New York State’s farmlands, shaking the boards of the Ludington family mill as a messenger arrived with news that nearby Danbury, Connecticut, was under British attack and burning. Within minutes, sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington, daughter of an American colonel, mounted her horse, ready for a forty-mile ride through treacherous terrain in Dutchess and Putnam counties to alert her father’s troops.

For more than two hundred years little was known of Sybil Ludington’s life beyond that night. This version of her biography for young readers tells how her story as freedom fighter, hero, daughter, wife, mother, businesswoman, and grandmother was discovered.

For ages 9 – 12.

Illustrated in color and black and white.