Bourbon and bullets -- Red likker -- War and whiskey persist -- George Washington -- Evan and Isaac Shelby -- The Weller family -- Thomas Hughes Handy -- Paul l. Jones Jr -- George Thomas Stagg -- Julian Proctor van Winkle Jr -- Elmer Tandy Lee and James B. Johnson Jr -- Richard J. Newman -- Thomas E. Bulleit Jr -- David Steven Pickerell -- Veterans in craft whiskey -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: Happy hour.