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[General Orders].

Notifies that the Commander in Chief accepts the resignation of Doctor Daniel Bryan as Hospital Storekeeper, and appoints Doctor David Davis into the position. Reports that the corporeal punishment sentenced to Thomas Mattingly of Captain Lewis's...

GLC04864.18

[General Orders]

Reports that the Commander in Chief has pardoned Ephraim Barker, Archibald McDonald, and John Batuse from death sentences. John Wilky, Hugh Nagerty, and George Holland are also pardoned and will rejoin the companies and corps to which they belonged...

GLC04864.19

[General Orders]

Orders that the troops are to be mustered to the 1st of December and an inspection done of their arms, ammunition, and clothing. Reports that Major Thomas Doyle of the 1st Sub Legion has been liberated from his arrest by the Commander in Chief....

GLC04864.20

[General Orders]

Countersigned by John Mills, Adjutant General on p. 5. Report of the General Court Martial trial of Edwin L. Harris of the 1st Sub Legion held from 17-23 November 1795. Harris is charged with fraudulently obtaining money from the public. The...

GLC04864.21

[General Orders]

Reports that the Commander in Chief has postponed the execution of three soldiers, Ephraim Barker, Archibald McDonald, and John Batuze until November 1st. Phineas Smith, a waggoner in the Quarter Master General's employ, is free to return to duty....

GLC04864.22

[Minutes of field council held during attack on Bull's Ferry blockhouse]

Co-signed by six field officers, including Brigadier General William Irvine of the 2nd Brigade of the Pennsylvania Line. The minutes of a council of war held during an attack on Bull's Ferry blockhouse. It appears that Knox wrote this on the verso...

GLC04898

to Thomas Chilton

A very long letter to Chilton, a Kentucky congressman, in which Harrison recounts his experiences in the wars in the Northwest Territory. Voices his support for Chilton's proposal to extend the pension laws to veterans of the Indian Wars in the...

GLC05300

[General Anthony Wayne's report of expenditures from June 1792-May 1794]

Records various expenditures incurred during Indian treaty negotiations. A certification of the expenses along with a comment that "the United States will acquire at least Three Millions of Dollars, from the extra cession of territory obtained by...

GLC05468

to Francis Vigo

Asks Major Vigo to use his connections to arrange for the British to be spied on. Wayne wants "either Frenchmen or Indians to go as far as Roche de Bout...to discover the number and designs of the enemy," the number of British troops and whether or...

GLC06479.01

to William Smallwood

Written near Bacon's Bridge, possibly near Dorchester, South Carolina. Major Roxburgh informs General Smallwood that his company remains near Bacon's Bridge in an inactive state. Reports that the British "continue in the same situation as when I...

GLC06508.05