Fifteen-year-old Adam Cooper eagerly joins the action of the Revolutionary War, but when his father is killed by British soldiers one April morning, Adam is forced to confront the harsh realities of war.
The story of one day in the life of a young American boy in colonial Lexington, the day on which he joined the militia and saw his father shot down by the British.
Adam Cooper signs up on the muster roll of the Lexington Militia on April 19th, 1775, and then lives through the first day of conflict with the British, during which his father is killed.
