Analysis Of Ordinary Courage: The Revolutionary War Adventures Of Joseph Plumb Martin

Ordinary Courage: The Revolutionary War Adventures of Joseph Plumb Martin
Joseph Plumb Martin was born in 1760 just as the American Revolution was about to dawn. Martin never commanded large bodies of troops in battle: he never told major political offices. He never engaged in vital diplomatic negotiations, and he never invented anything of consequence or made a notable scientific discovery. He never acquired great wealth to distribute as a renowned philanthropist. Martin was very much just an ordinary person who, according to one of his admires, had “acquired a fund of knowledge, which with his lively social disposition and ready wit made him a highly entertaining and instructive companion. The winter of this year passed off without any very frightening alarms,

To make matters worse they had to deal with smallpox more dangerously than that is Lice because they rarely bathed or washed themselves or had laundered clothing. Another horrible things that Martin and his soldiers had to deal with was typhus a potential killer disease characterized by usually high fevers and red sports on the skin. Typhus took the lives of most of the Valley Forge Martin was under the brigade command of General James M. Varnum but his actual commander was Colonial John Durkee of the 4th Connecticut regiment, since Varnum was elsewhere. Washington’s continentals fairly well- supplied with food, but in the months preceding a major reason for so much privation at Valley Forge. Martin’s statement about Washington’s main army was misleading about them residing in the White Plains as they crossed the Hudson River and established winter quarters in Middlebrooks, New