The Life of Artemas Ward: The First Commander-in-Chief of the American Revolution
PUBLISHER'S PREFACE
FROM my childhood I had hoped to write the biography
of my great-grandfather, Artemas Ward, the first com-
mander-in-chief of the American Revolution, and I have
always promised myself that some day I would publish a
life story that would give him his rightful place among
Revolutionary leaders.
I have not been alone in my uneasy conviction that
Artemas Ward's memory has been unjustly neglected.
Others, though lacking the impulse of relationship, have felt
that in the history of the founding of the United States
there is a blank that should be filled with the story of his
life. Even so long as eighty-one years ago, Emory Wash-
burn expressed a hope that some one would "yet" prepare
a biography of General Ward that would "do justice to
the memory of one of the earliest and bravest of the patriots
of the Revolution."
If a commonplace biography would have contented me,
it could have been produced very easily by Interweaving some
of the original material in the Artemas Ward Manuscripts
with a conventional account of the American Revolution and
the establishment of the United States, but I had no desire
to write or publish such a biography.
To accomplish what I desired Involved a great amount
of research — it was plainly a labor of years. I continually
hoped to be able to set aside all other claims upon my time
and to devote my whole attention to the task, but the op-
portunity always evaded me, and, finally, I turned to Mr.
Charles Martyn and commissioned him to do the research
for me. I knew that he would spare no effort in the hunt
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for original pertinent material, and, further, that there was
not the slightest danger that he would gild a point or dodge
an issue for the sake of making a palatable story.
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