History buffs are no doubt familiar with the story of Shadrack Byfield, a rank-and-file British redcoat who fought during the War of 1812 and lost his left arm to a musket ball for his trouble.

Joseph Plumb Martin had a score to settle. The American revolution had not been, as popular myth had it in 1830, fought by farmers who left their plow for the battlefield, but by soldiers like him, a ...

Joseph Plumb Martin had a score to settle. Martin's "A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier," which he wrote at 70, is among the key sources used in ...