Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier
The Narrative of Joseph Plumb Martin (Dover Books on Americana)
by Joseph Plumb Martin
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appears in Military, History, and Nonfiction.
A wideeyed 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 midAtlantic states and returning north after the British surrender at Yorktown. His notes, penned when he was seventy, recount in grim ...
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appears in Military, History, and Nonfiction.
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