Excerpt from A Revolutionary Pilgrimage: Being an Account of a Series of Visits to Battlegrounds Other Places Made Memorable by the War of the Revolution Some years ago I systematically visited the scenes and battle-fields connected with the Revolution, undertaking a sort of pilgrimage - a series of journeys that covered a period of almost fourteen months, my motive being to furnish illustrations for Henry Cabot Lodge's "Story of the Revolution." The only book I could procure to guide me was Lossing's classic "Field-Book of the Revolution," an admirable work, indeed, but so bulky, so unwieldy, and so verbose that it makes rather complicated reading. Besides, in many particulars it is now quite out of date. Many of the scenes have radically changed since 1850; many of the landmarks he describes have disappeared; while, on the other hand, much has been done by patriotic people to mark and make interesting the Revolutionary battle-grounds since his day. While engaged upon this pilgrimage I met many people - local authorities, men of importance, who had made special researches into the history of their own particular region and were kind enough to give me pamphlets and articles that they had written or data that they had collected - material that seemed to me most interesting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.