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A young patriot : the American Revolution as experienced by one boy
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A young patriot : the American Revolution as experienced by one boy

Author: Jim Murphy
Publisher: New York : Clarion Books, ©1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Joseph Plumb Martin was only 15 in 1776 when he joined the revolutionary army in Milford Massachusetts. He spent the rest of his teen and young adult years marching, working, fighting, foraging and sometimes almost freezing and starving with his fellow patriots until the war ended in 1783. As an older man, he wrote and published his account of his wartime experiences, well known events as Washington and Lafayette  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Juvenile literature
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Murphy, Jim, 1947-
Young patriot.
New York : Clarion Books, c1996
(OCoLC)605614025
Online version:
Murphy, Jim, 1947-
Young patriot.
New York : Clarion Books, c1996
(OCoLC)610302486
Named Person: Joseph Plumb Martin; Joseph Plumb Martin
Material Type: Biography, Juvenile audience
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jim Murphy
ISBN: 0395605237 9780395605233 9780395900192 0395900190
OCLC Number: 29310303
Description: 101 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Contents: Smell of war --
Now I was a soldier --
Smell of powder --
Marching, watching, starving, and freezing --
Sending the lobsterbacks scurrying --
War and Joseph go south --
Parted forever --
Cordial and long farewell.
Responsibility: by Jim Murphy.
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Abstract:

Joseph Plumb Martin was only 15 in 1776 when he joined the revolutionary army in Milford Massachusetts. He spent the rest of his teen and young adult years marching, working, fighting, foraging and sometimes almost freezing and starving with his fellow patriots until the war ended in 1783. As an older man, he wrote and published his account of his wartime experiences, well known events as Washington and Lafayette and the winter at Valley Forge and the surrender at Yorktown; but also the lesser known facts such as the serious lack of food and clothing that the soldiers had to endure.

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