Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier
Subtitle: The Narrative of Joseph Plumb Martin (Dover Value Editions)
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: May 26, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780486451466
Subjects: Personal narratives; United States; Martin, Joseph Plumb,; Historical - U.S.; United States - Reconstruction Period (1865-1877); History; Biography / Autobiography; Soldiers; History: American; Revolution, 1775-1783; Personal Memoirs; History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775); United States - Colonial Period; 1760-1850; Biography
Description: "A wide-eyed teenager during most of the Revolutionary War, Joseph Plumb Martin left his grandfather's farm in Connecticut in 1775 and spent much of the next eight years with the Continental Army, crisscrossing the mid-Atlantic states and returning north after the British surrender at Yorktown. His notes, penned when he was seventy, recount in grim detail his harrowing experiences during the conflict--the staggering losses in human life, the agony of long marches, constant gnawing hunger, bitter cold, and the fear of battle, as well as a warts-and-all view of military leaders. Balancing these brutal wartime experiences are lively accounts of hunting, fishing, and other diversions--including an occasional encounter with a "saucy miss." The fullest existing description of the Revolutionary War by an enlisted man ..."--Back cover.