Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier (Martin - Dover ed.)

Author: Joseph Plumb Martin

ISBN: 9780486451466

Binding: paperback

Section: Biography

Subtitle: The Narrative of Joseph Plumb Martin

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. The fullest existing description of the Revolutionary War by an enlisted man, and a rediscovered gem of American history, Martin's recollections brim with telling anecdotes that reveal a great deal about American life during this era.