A Young Patriot: The American Revolution as Experienced by One Boy

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In the summer of 1776, Joseph Plumb Martin was once a fifteen-year-old Connecticut farm boy who thought to be himself “as warm a patriot as the most productive of them.” He enlisted that July and stayed within the revolutionary army until hostilities ended in 1783. Martin fought under Washington, Lafayette, and Steuben. He took part in major battles in New York, Monmouth, and Yorktown. He wintered at Valley Forge after which at Morristown, thought to be much more severe. He wrote of his war years in a memoir that brings the American Revolution alive with telling details, drama, and a country boy’s humor. Jim Murphy lets Joseph Plumb Martin speak for himself all through the text, weaving in historical backfround details wherever essential, giving voice to a young person who was once an eyewitness to the fight that set The us free from the British Empire.
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