Who Was Uncle Sam?
Where did the popular idiom come from?
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4 min readFeb 20, 2021
Uncle Sam is the personification of the federal government or the nation as a whole. We are all familiar with this idiom. But where did the name Uncle Sam come from? The story is interesting.
Samuel Wilson joined the Continental Army in 1781 at the age of 15. His duties were not glamorous and included guarding cattle, mending fences, and…
