James Innes was a Lieutenant Colonel of Virginia’s 15th Regiment in the Revolutionary War. He was an eloquent supporter of the Constitution at Virginia’s ratifying convention, and served ten years as the Virginia Attorney General. His friends considered James Innes “the most elegant belles-lettres scholar and the most eloquent orator I ever heard.” Now it is January of 1798. James Innes has returned to Williamsburg to with his fellow soldiers. Please join the conversation to discuss why Virginia joined the American Revolution and what citizens of a republic owe to their country and one another HERE.