A

MILITARY JOURNAL

DURING THE

AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR,

From 1775 to 1783,

DESCRIBING INTERESTING EVENTS AND TRANSACTIONS OF THIS PERIOD,
WITH NUMEROUS

HISTORICAL FACTS AND ANECDOTES,

FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT.

TO WHICH IS ADDED

AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING

Biographical Sketches

OF

SEVERAL GENERAL OFFICERS.

BY JAMES THACHER, M. D.

LATE SURGEON IN THE AMERICAN ARMY.

As Americans we hail with delight any attempt to rescue from oblivion the words or
actions of those whose names we have been taught to revere."

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY RICHARDSON AND LORD.

J. H. A. Frost, printer.

1823.