From Wikipedia:
On January 21, 1776, Rev. Muhlenberg started the services in the Anglican church in Woodstock, Virginia as usual. For the sermon, he took his text from the third chapter Ecclesiastes, which starts with "To every thing there is a season..." When he got to the eighth verse, he declaimed "...a time of war, and a time of peace,... and this is the time of war". He removed his clerical robe to reveal his Colonel's uniform. The next day he led out 300 men from the county to form the nucleus of the Eighth Virginia.

See the "previous" photo to see the freshly waxed statue, 5 years earlier.