Life of Artemas Ward : The First Commander-in-Chief of the American Revolution (1921)
, by Martyn, CharlesNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780548656211 | 0548656215
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 10/30/2007
This is the story of Artemas Ward, the first commander-in-chief of the American Revolution. It is the story of the high elevation of an eighteenth-century Massachusetts country-township leader. In Artemas Ward it presents a type as clear-cut and distinct as that of the Samuel Adams of the Boston town-meeting and the wealthy Washington of Virginia; and it tells of a life lived in the strength of an unquestioning faith in the Puritan religion, of an intelligence of high order "directed chiefly to the practical interests of mankind," of a character distinguished by industry, and patience, and forgetfulness of self, by tenacity of conviction and complete integrity.