George Walton Episode 3: Wounded at Savannah – Colonel, Capture & The Cost of Signing | The Rough Ashlar

King Solomon's Passport · Jul 25, 2026 · 13m

What’s up, you magnificent bastards? 👊 Episode 3 of The Rough Ashlar — our 4-part deep dive into Brother George Walton.

After signing the Declaration as the youngest delegate, Walton takes the field as colonel of the 1st Georgia Regiment. In December 1778, during the British assault on Savannah, he is shot in the thigh, thrown from his horse, and captured. We walk the brutal battle, the painful wound, nearly ten months as a prisoner of war, and his desperate governorship while Georgia was still partially occupied.

This is the real, bloody cost of signing — endured with the same carpenter’s…