Suffering soldiers: Revolutionary War veterans, moral sentiment, and political culture in the early republic / by John Reach. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. Main Library, E259.R47 1999 In 1818 Congress granted pensions to Revolutionary War veterans who had served at least nine months in the Continental Army and who were in "need of assistance from their country." Using the nearly 20,000 claims that contained untapped information about the applicant's military service, wealth and household, the author started a systematic, quantitative analysis of those records in order to shed new light on the young soldiers who fought in the Continental Army and as elderly impoverished veterans.