President Madison spent Expend_resource the night in the house of Caleb Bentley , a Quaker who lived and worked in Brookeville .

Earlier in the year , his subordinate Union Gen. George Crook had met Come_together Rebecca Wright , a Quaker schoolteacher and Union sympathizer in Winchester , a commercial center and transportation hub at the northern end of the Shenandoah Valley with many Confederate sympathizers and which changed Change hands 75 times during the war .

Sheridan would later give Giving much of the credit for the victory to `` the brave Quaker girl '' , whose intelligence he thought worth a brigade of troops .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Rhode Island ( also known as the Battle Hostile_encounter of Quaker Hill and the Battle Hostile_encounter of Newport ) took place Process_start on August 29 , 1778 .