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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. |
| More information: |
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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