Virtutis Praemium 2 vol set
- Author: John Dwight Kilbourne.
- SKU: 1856
- ISBN: 0897253345
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$121.75
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Description:
VIRTUTIS PRAEMIUM The Men Who Founded the State Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania by John Dwight Kilbourne. 2 vol. Set with a total of 1,504pp., dust jacket, printed endpapers, photos, 14,516 entry Every Name Index. Smythe sewn and hard cover. 1998. 2 vol. set
From 1775 to 1783 Pennsylvania soldiers of the Continental Army fought the battles of the American Revolution, being transformed into soldiers by their officer corps. This study is the story of some of those officers who, like their men, were often unclothed, hungry, ill and unpaid.
In 1783 nearly 300 of these officers elected to become Original Members of the State Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania, the oldest patriotic-lineal society in the world.
This is a unique record of a cross-section of Pennsylvania's eighteenth-century inhabitants.
