Joseph Plumb Martin

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"A wide-eyed teenager during most of the Revolutionary War, Joseph Plumb Martin left his grandfather's farm in Connecticut in 1775 and spent much of the next eight years with the Continental Army, crisscrossing the mid-Atlantic states and returning north after the British surrender at Yorktown. His notes, penned when he was seventy, recount in grim detail his harrowing experiences during the conflict--the staggering losses in human life, the agony of long marches, constant gnawing hunger, bitter cold, and the fear of battle, as well as a warts-and-all view of military leaders. Balancing these brutal wartime experiences are lively accounts of hunting, fishing, and other diversions--including an occasional encounter with a "saucy miss." The fullest existing description of the Revolutionary War by an enlisted man ..."--Back cover.

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The Catholic University of America, Speech and Drama Department, Rev. G.V. Hartke, O.P., director presents The Harlequins in a musical biography of Georg M. Cohan "Yankee Doodle Boy," by Walter F. Kerr and Leo Brady, production staged by Walter F. Kerr, directed by Mr. Kerr and Dr. Josephine McGarry Callan, designed by Ralph Brown, costumes by Mary Ann La Covis, dances by Mr. and Mrs. John J. Hoffman, musical score from the library of George M. Cohan, by permission of Mr. Cohan and Jerry Vogel, publisher, music supervised by Betty Healy and Joseph Michalowicz.