| Description |
101 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm |
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age Children |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-93) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo. |
| Subject |
Martin, Joseph Plumb, 1760-1850.
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Martin, Joseph Plumb, 1760-1850. |
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Connecticut -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Juvenile literature.
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United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Campaigns -- Juvenile literature.
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Soldiers -- Connecticut -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Soldiers. |
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Connecticut. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
American Revolution (United States : 1775-1783) |
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United States. |
| Chronological Term |
1775 - 1783 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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Juvenile works.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Murphy, Jim, 1947- Young patriot. New York : Clarion Books, ©1996 (OCoLC)605614025 |
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Online version: Murphy, Jim, 1947- Young patriot. New York : Clarion Books, ©1996 (OCoLC)610302486 |
| ISBN |
0395605237 |
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9780395605233 |
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9780395900192 |
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0395900190 |
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1439578524 Paw Prints |
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9781439578520 Paw Prints |
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