REVOLUTIONARY WAR POEM

AIRED: Season 1, Episode 9
Season 2, Episode 8
Season 3, Episode 5
THE DETECTIVES: Gwen Wright and Elyse Luray
THE PLACE: Salem, Oregon

THE CASE:

The History Detectives arrive in Salem, Oregon to look into the story of a Revolutionary War poem found 25 years ago hiding in an antique trunk.

The document appears to have been written by an American named Dan Goodhue while imprisoned in 1780 as a POW in England.

Who was this man and how did his poem travel across the sea and end up in Oregon more than 200 years later?

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