Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier: The Narrative of Joseph Plumb Martin
A American History, Nonfiction, Autobiography book. Just have the patience to hear me out,and I will tell you what...
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...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 166 pages
- ISBN: 9780486451466 / 486451461
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Just have the patience to hear me out,and I will tell you what I've been about. Joseph Plumb Martin, A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier: Some Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of Joseph Plumb Martin
Wow! What a an amazing book! This is a first-hand account of the Revolutionary War as told by a lowly, private who helped with the grunt work of the war that won our freedom. Such a unique and heart-wrenching perspective. This is not an ode to General Washington, or a discussion of strategic moves by the contending sides. It is just... My son recommended that I read this. He is a history buff and was captivated by this narrative written by a revolutionary war soldier--not during the war but years later. I approached it with some trepidation, but I also found myself amazed to be reading such an honest work some 200 years after it was written--finding opinions and situations... As the only surviving first person account of the American Revolutionary War from teh eyes of a private (soldier) in the (first) militia, and then the Continental Army, in every major campaign and battle of the North, including the Battle of Yorktown, it is such an interesting read that at points will have you laughing, and next shaking...
