. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . HISTORIC MILITIA COMMANDS OF THE CITY F ROM these well-trained bodies of State and independent soldieryhundreds of officers, many of whom gained high rank, were sup-plied to the volunteer regiments of Pennsylvania and of otherStates. THE FIRST TROOP, PHILADELPHIA CITY CAVALRY. T HE origin of this, the oldest military organi-zation in the United States, is co-incidentalwith the beginning of the colonial movementwhich resulted in the war of the Revolutionand the eventual union of the American States underthe Constitution. In the c
. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . HISTORIC MILITIA COMMANDS OF THE CITY F ROM these well-trained bodies of State and independent soldieryhundreds of officers, many of whom gained high rank, were sup-plied to the volunteer regiments of Pennsylvania and of otherStates. THE FIRST TROOP, PHILADELPHIA CITY CAVALRY. T HE origin of this, the oldest military organi-zation in the United States, is co-incidentalwith the beginning of the colonial movementwhich resulted in the war of the Revolutionand the eventual union of the American States underthe Constitution. In the course of the deliberationsof the first Continental Congress, in Carpenters Hall,Philadelphia, the colonial delegates appointed a Com-mittee of Correspondence, charged, among otherduties, to initiate a force of defence to maintain the1 rights of the people against the continued oppressionof the British Government. This committee of threemet, on November 17th, 1774, at the State House,and on the evening of the same day, with twenty-fiveother gentlemen, formed a company of cavalry des-ignated The Light Horse of the City of Philadel-phia. The troopers were identified with the old andexclusive clubs long famous as the Colony in Schuyl-kill, founded in 1732; the Schuylkill Company of FortSt. Davids, dating from 1753, and the Gloucester Fox
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