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REVOLUTIONARY WAR, ORDERLY BOOKS, 6th PENNSYLVANIA REGIMENT]. Six manuscript orderly books kept by various officers of the 6th Pennsylvania Infantry, various places [Peekskill, Morristown, West Point and other encampments], 1 January 1779 - 26 Novemb...

Auction 29.05.1998
29.05.1998
Schätzpreis
25.000 $ - 35.000 $
Zuschlagspreis:
46.000 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 159

REVOLUTIONARY WAR, ORDERLY BOOKS, 6th PENNSYLVANIA REGIMENT]. Six manuscript orderly books kept by various officers of the 6th Pennsylvania Infantry, various places [Peekskill, Morristown, West Point and other encampments], 1 January 1779 - 26 Novemb...

Auction 29.05.1998
29.05.1998
Schätzpreis
25.000 $ - 35.000 $
Zuschlagspreis:
46.000 $
Beschreibung:

REVOLUTIONARY WAR, ORDERLY BOOKS, 6th PENNSYLVANIA REGIMENT]. Six manuscript orderly books kept by various officers of the 6th Pennsylvania Infantry, various places [Peekskill, Morristown, West Point and other encampments], 1 January 1779 - 26 November 1780. Together 1191 pages, oblong 4to, 162 x 202 mm. ( 6.3/8 x 8.1/8 in.), in original bindings: calf-backed paper boards, one cover detached, rubbed, spines worn, minor dampstains, but entirely readable throughout and in unusually good condition overall. A DAY-TO-DAY RECORD OF A PENNSYLVANIA REGIMENT IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR Orderly books constitute invaluable primary sources for the study of the Revolutionary War. Meticulously kept in long-hand by specially designated officers, they record on a daily basis orders and instructions from Congress, the Commander-in-Chief, Corps commander, divisional and unit officers. These daily entries are essential not only for fixing the regiment in a particular encampment on a particular day but for documenting precise orders given for bivouac and camp, picket, order of march, provisions, issuance of arms, foraging parties, courts-martials, whippings, executions and general musters. Most of the orderly books which are extant today are in permanent institutional collections. No other books are recorded for this particular Regiment in a recent survey (A. Stein, Orderly Books of the American Revolution in the Morristown National Historical Park Library , 1994). The 6th Pennsylvania Regiment's orderly books are clearly written by several different officers: Captain Jacob Bowers (vols.1,2,3 and 5), Captain George Know (vol.4) and Lt. Stewart Herbert (vol.6), with portions in other hands. They cover the period of the victory at Stony Point, the nearly disastrous winter encampment at Morristown, N.J. (where supply problems and winter conditions were even more severe than at Valley Forge the year before), the British threat to the Hudson River forts, Knyphausen's invasion of New Jersey, and Benedict Arnold's treason. Officers mentioned include Wayne, Smallwood, Hand, Glover, Stark, Muhlenberg, Clinton, St. Clair, Gist, Irvine, Sterling, Hazen and others. Recorded here in addition to the minutiae of daily camp life are march to Smith's Clove to oppose a British attack up the Hudson River, preparations for Anthony Wayne's attack on the British fort at Stony Point (16 June 1780), the Battle of Springfield (23 June), the fortification of West Point and Constitution Island, etc. On 24 July the book records: "General Heath will please to give names to the redoubts on the heighths east of the River, and Genl. MacDougall to those on the west side, and on the Island." On 24 June 1780 the book notes: "The Commander in Chief requests Genl. Greene and all the Officers and Men under his command to accept his warmest thanks for the good conduct & gallantry display'd in opposing the enemy in their advance to Springfield..." The arrival of a French force at Newport is announced on 20 July 1780, and Washington proclaims that it marks "a new Tie between France and America. The lively concern the Allies manifest for our safety and Independence has a claim to the affection of every virtuous citizen..." (6)

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 159
Auktion:
Datum:
29.05.1998
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
Beschreibung:

REVOLUTIONARY WAR, ORDERLY BOOKS, 6th PENNSYLVANIA REGIMENT]. Six manuscript orderly books kept by various officers of the 6th Pennsylvania Infantry, various places [Peekskill, Morristown, West Point and other encampments], 1 January 1779 - 26 November 1780. Together 1191 pages, oblong 4to, 162 x 202 mm. ( 6.3/8 x 8.1/8 in.), in original bindings: calf-backed paper boards, one cover detached, rubbed, spines worn, minor dampstains, but entirely readable throughout and in unusually good condition overall. A DAY-TO-DAY RECORD OF A PENNSYLVANIA REGIMENT IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR Orderly books constitute invaluable primary sources for the study of the Revolutionary War. Meticulously kept in long-hand by specially designated officers, they record on a daily basis orders and instructions from Congress, the Commander-in-Chief, Corps commander, divisional and unit officers. These daily entries are essential not only for fixing the regiment in a particular encampment on a particular day but for documenting precise orders given for bivouac and camp, picket, order of march, provisions, issuance of arms, foraging parties, courts-martials, whippings, executions and general musters. Most of the orderly books which are extant today are in permanent institutional collections. No other books are recorded for this particular Regiment in a recent survey (A. Stein, Orderly Books of the American Revolution in the Morristown National Historical Park Library , 1994). The 6th Pennsylvania Regiment's orderly books are clearly written by several different officers: Captain Jacob Bowers (vols.1,2,3 and 5), Captain George Know (vol.4) and Lt. Stewart Herbert (vol.6), with portions in other hands. They cover the period of the victory at Stony Point, the nearly disastrous winter encampment at Morristown, N.J. (where supply problems and winter conditions were even more severe than at Valley Forge the year before), the British threat to the Hudson River forts, Knyphausen's invasion of New Jersey, and Benedict Arnold's treason. Officers mentioned include Wayne, Smallwood, Hand, Glover, Stark, Muhlenberg, Clinton, St. Clair, Gist, Irvine, Sterling, Hazen and others. Recorded here in addition to the minutiae of daily camp life are march to Smith's Clove to oppose a British attack up the Hudson River, preparations for Anthony Wayne's attack on the British fort at Stony Point (16 June 1780), the Battle of Springfield (23 June), the fortification of West Point and Constitution Island, etc. On 24 July the book records: "General Heath will please to give names to the redoubts on the heighths east of the River, and Genl. MacDougall to those on the west side, and on the Island." On 24 June 1780 the book notes: "The Commander in Chief requests Genl. Greene and all the Officers and Men under his command to accept his warmest thanks for the good conduct & gallantry display'd in opposing the enemy in their advance to Springfield..." The arrival of a French force at Newport is announced on 20 July 1780, and Washington proclaims that it marks "a new Tie between France and America. The lively concern the Allies manifest for our safety and Independence has a claim to the affection of every virtuous citizen..." (6)

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 159
Auktion:
Datum:
29.05.1998
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
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