Alexander Cain joins us to talk about the impact of the Revolution's first battles on the civilians in Lexington, Concord, and Menotomy. Cain, a former practicing lawyer, now maintains the Historical Nerdery blog, and has written two books: We stood Our Ground looks at Lexington in the first year of the war; and I See Nothing but the Horrors of a Civil War looks at the position of loyalists in the first years of Revolution. In our conversation he discusses the women and children, civilians, babies, and cats caught up in the first days of war in April of 1775.