| 1. | A Night to Be Young | [ 3] |
| 2. | In Readiness to March | [ 13] |
| 3. | Two to Begin | [ 23] |
| 4. | The Courage to Go and the Feet to Get Him There | [ 33] |
| 5. | The Great Ipswich Fright | [ 42] |
| 6. | Fun While It Lasted | [ 53] |
| 7. | Off to the Wars in Boston | [ 63] |
| 8. | Saved by a Pipe-smoking Man | [ 75] |
| 9. | No Clouds on Bunker Hill | [ 87] |
| 10. | A Tryst with the Enemy | [ 101] |
| 11. | A Great Secret | [ 113] |
| 12. | Thunder in the Air | [ 125] |
| 13. | The World Turned Upside Down | [ 136] |
| 14. | The Young May Die | [ 147] |
| 15. | A Terrible Black Day | [ 160] |
| 16. | Hanging and Wiving | [ 170] |
THE ROAD TO BUNKER HILL
Chapter One
A NIGHT TO BE YOUNG
“Nothing ever happens in this town,” said Eben Poore, dangling his long legs over the edge of the wharf, and looking down river to the open sea. The sky was pale, almost white above the long sand bar of Plum Island, he noticed, but the streets were growing dark behind him, and twilight had begun to gather round the warehouses and tall-masted ships by the waterside.
“No,” agreed Dick Moody, “nothing ever happens in Newburyport. Wish we could have a ‘tea party’ like they had in Boston a spell back. I’d sure enough be glad to rig up like an Indian and heave a chest of bohea overside.”
“I guess all the merchants know better than to bring it in,” said Johnny Pettengall. “Nobody’d drink the stuff. We got no name o’ being a Tory town.”
Johnny was older than the other boys, seventeen past. He had his own gun and drilled with the militia on muster days.
“But something has happened in Newburyport,” he went on, “though I don’t suppose it would mean very much to either o’ you.”
“What did happen?” asked Dick lazily. “Somebody’s cat kitten, or Indian Joe take too much rum and do a war dance in Queen Street again?”
Johnny shook his head and smiled. “Sally Rose Townsend’s back,” he said.