Over a quarter of a million men served in the armed forces that won our independence. Those who survived became America’s first veterans—the subject of America’s First Veterans, the new book from the American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati. Using eighty-five manuscripts, rare books, prints, broadsides, paintings, and other artifacts, America’s First Veterans introduces the stories of the men—and some women—who bore arms in the Revolutionary War. “These and thousands of other veterans of the Revolution,” Jack Warren writes, “were ordinary people, made extraordinary by their service in the struggle for American independence.” They believed in the American cause, he explains, and “many suffered for it, in ways their fellow Americans learned to honor and that we should honor as well.” In the words of Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie, who wrote the foreword to the book, their generation “seized an historic opportunity that forever changed the world.”
America's First Veterans
by Jack D. Warren, Jr.
Foreword by Robert L. Wilkie,
Secretary of Veterans Affairs
203 pages, hardcover
Publication date: November 11, 2020
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Over a quarter of a million men served in the armed forces that won our independence. Those who survived became America’s first veterans—the subject of America’s First Veterans, the new book from the American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati. Using eighty-five manuscripts, rare books, prints, broadsides, paintings, and other artifacts, America’s First Veterans introduces the stories of the men—and some women—who bore arms in the Revolutionary War. “These and thousands of other veterans of the Revolution,” Jack Warren writes, “were ordinary people, made extraordinary by their service in the struggle for American independence.” They believed in the American cause, he explains, and “many suffered for it, in ways their fellow Americans learned to honor and that we should honor as well.” In the words of Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie, who wrote the foreword to the book, their generation “seized an historic opportunity that forever changed the world.”
America's First Veterans
by Jack D. Warren, Jr.
Foreword by Robert L. Wilkie,
Secretary of Veterans Affairs
203 pages, hardcover
Publication date: November 11, 2020