Private Yankee Doodle by Joseph Plumb Martin

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good. 19602 Little, Brown & Company. 1st Edition. Ex Libris (Previous owner's book plate on back of cover, hid by jacket and signature on front endpaper)

Joseph Plumb Martin -- "Private Yankee Doodle" -- recreates as no one else has ever done the daily life of the Revolutionary soldier. He withholds nothing of the hard times: the fright, pain, and death of battle...the grinding agony of marches without rest or sleep ...the days of belly-twisting hunger. But he balances these dangers and sufferings with accounts of diversions -- hunting, fishing, boxing -- of pranks and frolics, and of encounters with an occasional sassy miss. This new edition has been widely hailed as a rediscovered gem of American history. Originally published in Hallowell, Maine in 1830 as "A Narrative of Some Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier, Interspersed with Anecdotes of Incidents that Occurred Within his own Observation.