Download or read book With Paper Promises in Their Pockets written by Emily Jane Teipe and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is the objective of this study to examine the lives of Revolutionary soldiers in the New Republic by focusing on veterans' efforts to petition the government for military pensions, and by evaluating the pensioning process itself. An analysis of individual veterans post war experiences culled from their pension records and memoirs as well as statistical analysis of veterans as a group indicated the long term economic effects of the war on their lives. In addition these data reveal the degree of success they achieved after the war in terms of their own individual economic and social status. This study has also unearthed not only how the first pensions were established and subsequently amended but what value the government and the community placed on the soldier's service"--Introduction