 Following the cessation of his import business , Wodrow was appointed to serve in the political post of clerk for the Revolutionary Committee for King George County on May 6 , 1775 . During the American Revolutionary War in 1779 , Wodrow joined the Virginia militia where he was commissioned an officer with the rank of major and served under the Continental Army . He then served as a lieutenant colonel in command of cavalry until 1781 after which he became a member of the Society of the Cincinnati of Virginia . 
