[Rarebooks] FA: 1775 Lexington Concord Battle

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

It's Patriot's Day here in Massachusetts, celebrating the Lexington-Concord 
Battle of 1775. To celebrate, we have an interesting first-hand account of 
the Battle up for auction on Ebay. No reserve, because we fought for 
Freedom from Reserves!

<http://tinyurl.com/nlnlx>

"CONCORD FIGHT. Being so much of the Narrative of Ensign Jeremy Lister of 
the 10th Regiment of Foot as pertains to his services on the 19th of April, 
1775, and to his experiences in Boston during the early months of the 
Siege"  Published in Cambridge by the Harvard University Press in 1931. 
Edition limited to 500 copies.

An interesting account of the Lexington & Concord fights and subsequent 
retreat back to Boston by an officer who was wounded at the Concord Bridge. 
The manuscript account, written in 1782, first came to light when portions 
were published in the London Telegraph in 1928. Richard Eaton and Allen 
French of Concord tracked the original manuscript to its owner, a Lister 
descendant, who agreed to let them make a copy of the entire short memoir, 
and publish in full the parts that pertained to the Lexington-Concord 
battle and siege of Boston.

Ensign Jeremy Lister was a twenty-something junior officer in April, 1775, 
and he volunteered to join Colonel Smith's detachment on the march to 
Concord. Shot in the elbow at the Concord bridge, Lister's account of the 
devestating journey back to Boston and his stay there during the siege, as 
he recieved medical care for his shattered arm, contain many interesting 
details. This book also contains an interesting Introduction which gives 
further details about Lister and explains how difficult it is to figure out 
what happened on April 19th when using conflicting period accounts. At the 
end of the book there are several letters Lister wrote to his father, 
giving additonal details of the siege, including a short description of the 
Battle of Bunker Hill.

Current Bid - $9.99 / no reserve
<http://tinyurl.com/nlnlx>

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