Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from History of Colonel Edmund Phinney's Thirty-First Regiment of Foot: Eight Months Service Men of 1775; With Biographical Sketches of the Commissioned Officers and Rolls of the Companies
Longfellow wrote War is a terrible trade but in the cause that is righteous sweet is the smell of powder.
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