Hugh Wynne was a popular American novel by Silas Weir Mitchell, who was also a medical doctor, published in 1897.
He eventually serves under General George Washington and has various adventures as well as a love interest playing out during the Revolutionary War era.
[2] The Bookman gave the book high praise.
[3][4] The full title of the book is Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker, Sometime Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on the Staff of His Excellency General Washington.
Richard J. Beamish used the novel as the basis for his libretto to Camille Zeckwer's cantata La Mischianza.