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SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION,
WITH THE
MUSTER ROLLS
OF THE
PARTICIPATING AMERICAN
COMPANIES.
Number of copies printed:
This one No.
THE BATTLE OF APRIL 19, 1775,
IN
LEXINGTON, CONCORD,
LINCOLN,
ARLINGTON, CAMBRIDGE,
SOMERVILLE AND CHARLESTOWN,
MASSACHUSETTS.
BY
FRANK WARREN COBURN.
LEXINGTON, MASS., U. S. A.,
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR,
1912.
COPYRIGHT,
1912,
FRANK WARREN COBURN.
F. L. COBURN & CO., PRINTERS, BOSTON, MASS., U. S. A.
DEDICATION.
TO MY SON:
CHARLES LYMAN COBURN,
A NATIVE OF LEXINGTON.
PREFACE.
There have been many histories of the Battleof Lexington and of the Battle of Concord, someof them excellent to the extent of that part ofthe contest to which they were devoted. Fromtime to time gifted orators have gone to the onetown or to the other, and eloquently portrayedthe heroic deeds of men within that town on theopening day of the American Revolution. Nofault should be found with any of those, designedas a healthy stimulus to local pride, and tofoster sentiments of national patriotism.
But the student in American local historyneeds a more extensive view of the operations ofthat day. He needs to be better informed as tothe various scenes of carnage that were wagedalong all of those nearly twenty miles of highway.Men were slain in Lexington, and inConcord; but there were many others slain inLincoln, in Arlington, in Cambridge, and inSomerville. Nor should we forget the youngestmartyr of the day, but fourteen years of age,who fell in Charlestown.
For the purpose, then, of presenting to suchas may be interested, I have assembled here themost comprehensive account that has ever been[vi]offered,