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A wide-eyed teenager during much 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, criss-crossing the mid-Atlantic states and returning north after the British surrender at Yorktown. Martin recounts in grim detail his harrowing confrontations with gnawing hunger, long marches, the staggering loss of human life, bitter cold, and the fear of battle.

This is the fullest existing description of the Revolutionary War by an enlisted man. An invaluable memoir from an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Unabridged republication of the Glazier, Masters & Co., Hallowell, Maine, 1830 edition.

Dover Publications, 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches, 166 pages. Also published under the title, Private Yankee Doodle.

EXCELLENT PRIMARY SOURCE DESCRIPTION OF A CONTINENTAL SOLDIER!