I wish I could find an affordable source for this book, even to just find parts of it avalible online or something. Sometime it is so hard to get some information, especially for a reculse!
A Diary of Peter Edes, the Oldest Printer in the United States: Written During his Confinement in Boston, by the British, One Hundred and Seven Days, in the Year 1775, Immediately after the Battle of Bunker Hill. by
Edes, Peter.
Bangor: Samuel S. Smith, 1837.
It is reallly shocking how inhumanely the prisoners of war were treated in the American Revolution. General Gage was sympathetic to the Rebels and it was his wife who gave Dr Warren the advance warning of Lexington and Concord. It was the provost Marshall who apparently had say over the treatment of prisonders of war in Boston during the seige. They were often starved intentionally and disease was a real problem according to most sources. Smallpox was rampant in Boston and many died in prison.
Edit at 7:22 PM: I actually found it online, free to download. I actually was effective for once!
A Diary of Peter Edes, the Oldest Printer in the United States: Written During his Confinement in Boston, by the British, One Hundred and Seven Days, in the Year 1775, Immediately after the Battle of Bunker Hill. by
Edes, Peter.
Bangor: Samuel S. Smith, 1837.
It is reallly shocking how inhumanely the prisoners of war were treated in the American Revolution. General Gage was sympathetic to the Rebels and it was his wife who gave Dr Warren the advance warning of Lexington and Concord. It was the provost Marshall who apparently had say over the treatment of prisonders of war in Boston during the seige. They were often starved intentionally and disease was a real problem according to most sources. Smallpox was rampant in Boston and many died in prison.
Edit at 7:22 PM: I actually found it online, free to download. I actually was effective for once!
