[Rarebooks] fs: Mental Excitement Led Them Astray @ Concord & Lexington...

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

Their "mental excitement" may have led them
astray on our Just Catalogued pages-
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Coburn, Frank Warren. THE BATTLE OF APRIL 19, 1775, IN LEXINGTON, CONCORD,
LINCOLN, ARLINGTON, CAMBRIDGE, SOMERVILLE AND CHARLESTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS.
Lexington; published by the author: 1912. The first serious study of the
April 19th battles to include extensive material on the battles in
Arlington, Cambridge, Somerville and Charlestown as well as Lexington and
Concord. The author based his narrative "upon official reports, sworn
statements, diaries, letters, and narratives of participants and
witnesses; upon accounts of local historians and national orators; and, in
a few cases, upon tradition, if such seemed authentic and trustworthy".
Working with facts, however, can be a tricky business, as Coburn explains-

    "I am sorry to say, that in more than one instance, I have found even
the sworn statements at variances with each other. I am satisfied that
the authors did not intend to mislead in any way, but simply tried to
tell to others what appeared to them. Their mental excitement
naturally added a little of that vivid coloring noticeable in most war
narratives of a personal nature. My work has been to harmonize and
simplify these, and to extract simply the truth".

A new edition was published in 1922. Hardcover. 5.5"x8.5", xvi + 171
pages, plus 6 maps, 4 plates and 3 portraits; publisher's blue cloth with
gilt titles; a few spots, a little soil, but overall a very nice, bright
copy. [05781] $85.00

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