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Teenagers were critical to the American victory in the Revolutionary War. Over half of the colonial population was under the age of 16. A draft of all boys between the ages of 16 and 19 was enacted to fill the ranks of the Continental Army, leaving their sisters to fill their places at home. These circumstances meant that teenagers played an essential role not only in combat but also on the home front.
Israel Trask joined the militia at the age of 10; by the time he turned 12 he was serving at sea. Abigail Foote, a 15-year-old from Connecticut, wove cloth, sewed clothes, weeded the garden and made cheese, providing much needed clothing and food. Henry Yeager, 13, barely escaped hanging for his army role as drummer. Dicey Langston, 16 when the war began, risked her life to pass loyalist information to the Patriots. Future president Andrew Jackson was only 14 when he was captured and sent to jail at Camden.
This book relates the Revolutionary War experiences of 23 teenagers. Drawing on firsthand accounts of young Americans from Massachusetts to South Carolina and from many different backgrounds--wealthy and poor, slave and free, Tory and Patriot--it provides a fascinating, varied look at America's fight for independence and teenagers' role in this struggle for liberty. Excerpts from journals and memoirs make up the body of the text. Appendices provide a chronology of events and a glossary of sailing terms.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. John Greenwood Was There at the Beginning of the War
2. Israel Trask Sees Washington for the First Time
3. Ebenezer Fox Runs Away to Sea
4. Abigail Foote Notes Each Day's Tasks on the Home Front
5. A Dream Sends Mary Slocumb to the Battle
6. Michael Smith Meets a British Ship Up the Kills
7. British Soldier John Enys Sees Service in Canada
8. Sixteen-year-old Walter Bates Arrested as a Tory
9. Sybil Ludington Rides to Warn the Militia "the British Are Coming"
10. Ebenezer Fletcher Is Captured by the British at Hubbardton
11. David Holbrook at Bennington Heard "Boys Follow Me"
12. Lafayette Buys a Ship to Join the Americans
13. Henry Yeager: "You Are to Be Hanged Until You Are Dead! Dead! Dead!
14. Sally Wister: "My Teeth Rattled and My Hand Shook Like an Aspen Leaf"
15. African-American James Forten Was a Rebel
16. Eliza Faces the Enemy When They Invade Her Home
17. Dicey Langston: Spy/Courier Threatened by the Enemy
18. Grace and Rachel Capture Enemy Documents
19. Paul Hamilton: One of Marion's Swamp Foxes
20. Andew Jackson: "Take It Altogether, I Saw and Heard a Good Deal of War"
21. James Armistead: A Spy for Lafayette
22. Joseph Plumb Martin: At Yorktown "We Thought the More the Merrier"
23. Peter Otsiquette: Liaison Between Iroquois and Americans at Treaties
A Chronology of Events, 1763-1787
A Glossary of Sailing Ship Terms
Index
