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VON STEUBEN, FRIEDRICH WILHELM

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VON STEUBEN, FRIEDRICH WILHELM
(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 ""Steuben Maj. General"" with integral address leaf, 1p. legal folio, Philadelphia, Feb. 26, 1780, to Dr. George Glentworth in Philadelphia. In part: ""àThere 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 provisionsàI 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 HospitalsàI interest myself very much to this officer, & I hear you are now at the head of the Medical Departmentàthe present dearness of things does not by any means permit him to procure them with his own moneyà"". Moderate soiling, expertly silked for preservation, overall very good with a bold signature.