Excerpt from A Military Journal During the American Revolutionary War, From 1775 to 1783 Be It Remembered, That on the seventeenth day of May. in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three and in the forty-seventh year of the Independence of the United States of America. Richardson & Lord, of the said District, have deposited in this office, the title of a book the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit: "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.T'" In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the times therein mentioned:" and also to an Act entitled, "An Act supplementary to an Act. entitled. An Act tor the encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies during the times therein mentioned ; and extending the benefits thereof to the Arts of Designing, Engraving and Etching Historical and other Prints." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

2005 Scholar's Bookshelf reprint edition. First published in 1854, and known as "Thacher's American Revolution," this highly detailed record of the author's experiences as a medical officer between January 1775 and January 1783 presented a remarkable military history of the war and especially the sufferings of the American army and the actions of the American officers and generals who Thacher observed and sometimes cared for. The volume also remans invaluable for its extensive appendixes which include substantial biographical sketches of American generals and several documents including Burgoyne's "Observations" respecting the Battle of Saratoga.

The narrations in this "Journal" are invested, with peculiar interest, from the fact that its author himself mingled in the varied scenes of the Revolution, observed the different phases of military life ; was personally acquainted with the characters he presents ; and therefore gives us the truthful results of his own observation, greatly heightened in beauty and interest, by the attractive style which he employs, and the ease and grace with which he presents them. -- Preface.