The Adventures Of A Revolutionary Soldier

I feel like this book should be wisely and widely regarded as a national treasure. It was not what I expected. I had anticipated a private soldier's first hand account of analytical military history. It's not that at all. In many ways it is more like a colonial era version of M*A*S*H. I commiserated......more

First published in 1830, Joseph Plumb Martin's Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier is a remarkable account of the Revolutionary War as experienced by Martin, who first enlisted as a private in 1776, was promoted to sergeant in 1780, and finally left the army after the war concluded in 1783. There are......more

Invaluable. Martin's humour and sarcasm are irresistible. He is quite the character and a great narrator. I feel like he is an old friend; you get to know his honest thoughts, his down to earth view of heroic battles and events. He is brutally honest, an anti-hero ahead of his time. This was a surpri......more

In 1775, Joseph Plumb Martin (November 21, 1760 – May 2, 1850) was a wide-eyed fifteen-year-old boy who decided to leave his grandfather’s Connecticut farm and join the Continental Army, first as a private then a sergeant, to fight the English during the American War for Independence. During the nex......more