July 14th, 2011
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Book “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. Boston, Published by Richardson and Lord, J.H.A. Frost, printer, 1823, 603pp. octavo. Front board has separated, else very good condition. James Thacher (1754-1844) was an American physician and writer. From 1775 to 1783 he was a surgeon in the Revolution, in the Massachusetts 16th Regiment Thacher was stationed at West Point in 1780 and supported the execution by George Washington of the British spy John André. He was the author of Military Journal during the American Revolutionary War (1823); Observations Relative to the Execution of Major John André as a Spy in 1780 (1834); American New Dispensatory (1810; fourth edition, 1821); and other books.
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