[Transcriber's note: Author's spelling has been retained.]

Ruins Of Fort Ticonderoga
(From Lossing's Field Book of the Revolution.)

THE

MILITARY JOURNALS

OF TWO

PRIVATE SOLDIERS,

1758—1775,

with
NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES
to which is added,
A SUPPLEMENT,
containing
OFFICIAL PAPERS ON THE SKIRMISHES
AT LEXINGTON AND CONCORD.

POUGHKEEPSIE:
PUBLISHED BY ABRAHAM TOMLINSON,
AT THE MUSEUM.
1855.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854,
By ABRAHAM TOMLINSON,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States,
in and for the SouthernDistrict of New York.

STEREOTYPED BY C. C. SAVAGE.C. A. ALVORD, PRINTER,
13 Chambers Street, N. Y.29 Gold Street, N. Y.

ADVERTISEMENT.

(p. 005)

Having been, for several years, engaged in the establishment of aMuseum in Poughkeepsie, I have, by extensive travel and research, andby the kindness of many of my fellow-citizens in Dutchess county andelsewhere, obtained numerous objects, not only curious in themselves,but valuable as materials for history. Among these are two manuscriptJournals, kept by common soldiers, each during a single campaign, andwritten at periods seventeen years apart. One of these soldiers servedin a campaign of the conflict known as the French and Indian War,which commenced a hundred years ago; the other soldier assisted in thesiege of Boston, by the American army, in 1775 and 1776. Believingthat a faithful transcript of those Journals, given verbatim etliteratim, as recorded by the actors themselves, might have aninterest for American readers, (p. 006) as exhibiting the every-daylife of a common soldier in those wars which led to the founding ofour republic, I have yielded to the solicitations of friends, and thedictates of my own judgment and feelings, and in the following pagespresent to the public faithful copies of those diaries.

Perceiving that much of the intrinsic value of these Journals wouldconsist in a proper understanding of the historical facts to whichallusions are made in them, I prevailed upon Mr. Lossing, thewell-known author of the "Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution" toillustrate and elucidate these diaries by explanatory notes. His nameis a sufficient guaranty for their accuracy and general usefulness;and I flatter myself that this little volume will not only amuse, butedify, and that the useful objects aimed at in its publication will befully attained. With this hope, it is submitted to my fellow-citizens.

Abraham Tomlinson.

Poughkeepsie Museum, December, 1854.

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.

(p. 007)

The conflict known in America as the French and Indian War