In the summer of 1776, Joseph Plumb Martin was a fifteen-year-old Connecticut farm boy who considered himself as warm a patriot as the best of them.
Jim Murphy lets Joseph Plumb Martin speak for himself throughout the text, weaving in historical backfround details wherever necessary, giving voice to a teenager who was an eyewitness to the fight that set America free from the British Empire..
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.
He wintered at Valley Forge and then at Morristown, considered even more severe.
He took part in major battles in New York, Monmouth, and Yorktown.
Martin fought under Washington, Lafayette, and Steuben.
He enlisted that July and stayed in the revolutionary army until hostilities ended in 1783.
In the summer of 1776, Joseph Plumb Martin was a fifteen-year-old Connecticut farm boy who considered himself as warm a patriot as the best of them
