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Gabriel Neville

Author • Researcher • Speaker

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Gabriel Neville (Short Bio; Full CVis the author of The Last Men Standing: The 8th Virginia Regiment in the American Revolution and numerous articles on Virginia, Pennsylvania, and the frontier in the ​Revolutionary era. His research has appeared in the Journal of the American Revolution, Emerging Revolutionary War Era, The American Battlefield Trust, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and county historical society journals. He is the creator of the Revolutionary Virginia and 8th Virginia Regiment websites. The Last Men Standing is scheduled for release on May 31, 2025.


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Speaking Schedule

Retribution: Maryland 400 POWs and the Prison Ship Marytrs

Maryland 400 Symposium

Maryland Veterans Museum

11000 Crain Highway, Newbern, Md.

May 23, 2026


Southwest Heroes of Independence

Wilderness Road Regional Museum

Newbern, Va.

June 14, 2026


Peter Muhlenberg, The Fighting Parson (12:00 p.m.)

Campbell, Clark & the 8th Virginia (2:00 p.m.)

Shenandoah County Celebrates 1776

Shenandoah County Historical Society

Woodstock, Va.

June 20, 2026


Making History: The 8th Virginia's Pittsburgh Companies in 1776

Fort Pitt Museum Revolutionary War Conference

Pittsburgh, Pa.

July 11-12, 2026


Holding Fast: Dissenting Christians in Anglican Virginia

2026 Historic Germanna Reunion & Conference

Locust Grove, Va.

July 18, 2026


Historical Society of Western Virginia

Roanoke, Va.

October 29, 2026


Revolutionary War Roundtable of Valley Forge

January 19, 2027


Shenandoah Battlefields Revolutionary War Conference

February 20, 2027