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VON STEUBEN A.L.S.

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VON STEUBEN A.L.S.
<b>4. FRIEDRICH WILHELM VON STEUBEN</b> (1730 - 1794) American Revolutionary general who reported to Washington at Valley Forge to undertake the training of troops, later led Continental Army forces at Monmouth and Yorktown. Rare war-date A.L.S "<i>Steuben Maj. General</i>" with integral address leaf, 1p. legal folio, Philadelphia, Feb. 26, 1780, to Dr. George Glentworth in Philadelphia. In part: "<i>...There is a French officer Mr. Marcellin who has been sick in this Town upwards of a month, & has received from the Continent nothing but his Rations of Salt provisions...I should want [for him] at this time some Comforts as Wine, Sugar, Tea, Chocolate, &c. and good fresh meat and bread. These things are granted to the sick in all the Continental Hospitals...I interest myself very much to this officer, & I hear you are now at the head of the Medical Department...the present dearness of things does not by any means permit him to procure them with his own money...</i>". Moderate soiling, expertly silked for preservation, overall very good with a bold signature.<b>$3,000-4,000</b>