The Battle of Lexington and Concord in April Morning

Author's Note: This is a piece contrasting and comparing the Battle of Lexington and Concord with the book April Morning.

April Morning takes place in Lexington on April 18^th and 19^th. The time lapse of the book is only 24 hours therefore it is described very well.  The bloody battle of Lexington and Concord is tremendously descriptive and surprisingly accurate. The book, April Morning is reliable and trustworthy to the history of the battle of Lexington and Concord. 

When the battle of Lexington began in the book, all of the Militia and British soldiers were lined in rows facing each other waiting for someone to break the silence.  This is the exact same way they were arranged when the battle took place in reality. In the book and in real life, the weapons the colonists carried were a variety of different guns with a variety of different equipment needed.

In April Morning, Adam fires at marching British red coats fleeing from Concord from behind a wall parallel to the road. This also happened in 1775 during the battle of Lexington and Concord .  In reality the minutemen did just so and would fire volleys of rounds at the unprotected redcoats who could do nothing but continue onward down the road.

In Adam's mind the British opened fire on the Colonists first. In reality the truth of which side shot first is undecided.  In the book it says that a red coat fired a shot at Adam's father who was attempting to ward off the oncoming troops through verbal persuasion.  As history tells it no one knows who shot the first shot of the Revolutionary war.  

The book is extremely accurate to what happened in reality. It is very well done that I would use it as a resource for a paper if I had the need to. The book only makes a few unnoticeable mistakes in the truth of what happened but that is only to enhance the experience of the book. This happened a lot anyways in the days of the Revolution because the newspapers would write things that gave sympathy for the colonists. The history of the Battle of Lexington and Concord is written accurately in the book April Morning.