Revolutionary War Militiaman Display at Army Museum | FORT BELVOIR, Va. — A lifelike figure of militiaman Sylvanus Wood stands guard in the "Call to Arms" gallery at the National Museum of the United States Army in Fairfax County, Virginia. Wood, a Massachusetts minuteman, stood at Lexington in April 1775 and later claimed to be the first American to capture a British soldier. The display traces the shift from citizen militias to the Continental Army founded that same year.

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