This book tells the story of the "forgotten" youngsters who engaged in the boycott of British goods and the battle that led up to the Declaration of Independence; the story of their courageous exploits in eight years of warfare on land and sea, and the story of the social forces that shaped and transformed their post-war lives. The book is based on the eye-witness accounts of one hundred children and teenagers who were between the ages of five and sixteen when they first observed the evetns recorded in their diaries, journals, letters, or memoirs.