Posted on 07/04/2025 12:05:36 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
On the morning of June 17, 1775, a physician in his mid-thirties stood near a rough earthen redoubt overlooking the Charlestown Peninsula. He had no command, no formal post on the field, and no obligation to be there at all.
But as the smoke from British warships rose in plumes over Boston Harbor, Dr. Joseph Warren made his way toward the crest of Breed’s Hill, musket in hand. He was the president of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress and was commissioned a major general just days before. He declined command and chose instead to fight as a private soldier—an ordinary volunteer—alongside the men already entrenched.
But Joseph Warren was no ordinary volunteer.
His presence stirred freedom’s fire. Calm amid chaos, he moved among the men, urging them to stand fast. After repeated exhortations, Warren reportedly declared, “These fellows say we won’t fight! By Heaven, I hope I shall die up to my knees in blood!”
And die he did.
Before the Declaration, long before the Constitution, before George Washington formally took command of the Continental Army—Joseph Warren became the Revolution’s first martyr.
His death at Bunker Hill was a jolt to the patriot cause and a harbinger of how real, how irreversible, and how deadly the pursuit of American liberty was about to become.
The Doctor Who Would Not Wait
Born in 1741 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, Joseph Warren rose from modest beginnings to become a Harvard-educated physician, political philosopher, and leading voice of resistance.
By the time of the Boston Tea Party, he was known throughout New England not only as a compelling orator but as a quiet architect of rebellion. He authored the Suffolk Resolves—condemning the Coercive Acts as unlawful and tyrannical, and urging organized resistance—which the First Continental Congress soon endorsed.
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During the battle he fought behind the earthworks until the patriots exhausted their ammunition. He stayed there to give the militia time to escape while the British made their final assault. A British officer then recognized him and shot him in the head. He died instantly, six days after his 34th birthday.
The British stripped his body and stabbed it beyond recognition, then threw him into a shallow grave with another patriot killed in the battle. Paul Revere later identified his body.
I graduated Joseph Warren Elementary School in Chicago in 1958. It was named for him. It was a great school when I went there, but the last time I saw it in the news was when there was a murder in the playground where I used to play. I made a website for our graduating class and one of the stories someone told was of people chartering a bus for the 50th anniversary with a police escort to go back to see the school. You really can’t go back.
5th ggfather joined the patriot army in NY after hearing of that battle.
Sadly, almost nobody has a thing to say about the wonderful life of Joseph Warren.
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https://librivox.org/life-and-times-of-joseph-warren-by-richard-frothingham-jr/
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