John de Morgan (1848-1926), who also wrote under the pseudonyms Captain Luther Barr; John L. Douglas; An Old Salt and Frank Sheridan, was the American author of: The First Shot for Liberty; or, The Minute Men of Massachusetts (1892), The Hero of Ticonderoga; or, Ethan Allen and His Green Mountain Boys (1896), Paul Revere and the Boys of Liberty (1904), The Young Ambassador; or, Washington's First Triumph (1904) and The Young Guardsman; or, With Washington in the Ohio Valley (1904).