2 May 1863

Henry, Josiah E., 1840-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sophia Henry

Henry writes to his mother from Fredericksburg. Encloses ten dollars. Reports that there has been heavy fighting for several days. Expects a major battle within 48 hours.

GLC03523.07.17

7 August 1863

Henry, Josiah E., 1840-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sophia Henry

Henry writes to his mother from the U.S. General Hospital in Brattleboro. Reports that he has had chronic diarrhea for three weeks and left his regiment on 29 July 1863. Expects to return to his regiment within two to three weeks. Comments there is no possibility for a furlough.

GLC03523.07.18

27 August 1863

Henry, Josiah E., 1840-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Angeline Henry

Henry writes to his sister from the U.S. General Hospital in Brattleboro. Reports he is feeling better and expects a week furlough by the end of September. Remarks that he cannot afford to contribute money for her schooling and questions why she doesn't board to save the travel expenses. Comments that it has been two years to the day since he enlisted.

GLC03523.07.19

03/27/1864

Bogart, Abram, fl. 1825-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary M. Bogart

Begins letter to his wife with a long ramble about love, "I write you not as one with out hope for as long as thare is life thare is hope that we may se each others faces again on earth for my faith is yet strong though my body is week yet through love am I strong to see my loved ones at home and I wish that my love would sing and learn my children to sing as I have heard them sing in my sleep a few nights ago..." Gives his opinion on the poor care that the sick and wounded soldiers receive. "For they write home of them that die here of haveing the best of attension and care when they think…

GLC03523.11.22

05/18/1864

Bogart, Abram, fl. 1825-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary M. Bogart

Complains to his wife about picket duty, scouting, and his commanding officers. "...and so it goes from day to day and I am mad enough to kill for the oficers dont go on picket nor scout with us but lay in their tents and growl at us but if we ever get on the march they will catch it and they know it..." Tells her to "take it easy as you can and take good care of your self and children and keep chirful and not get the dumps for I have them enough for us boath..."

GLC03523.11.23

08/09/1864

Bogart, Abram, fl. 1825-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary M. Bogart

Writes to wife complaining of unfair treatment, "we are dumb beasts here and treated worse some times I think for we have got to go when they say go no matter how hard it storms or how dark the night is thare no backing out for poor private in the ranks but oficers can send their orderlies and they will come when the storm is over and it is all right but that aristocracy is playing out in the army of the potomac ..."

GLC03523.11.24

16 September 1782

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript letter

Title: to George Washington

Written and initialed for Knox in the hand of Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide-de-camp. Writes, "Capt. [Thomas] Machin is desirous of going to Philadelphia for a few days, to transact some business relative to the recruiting service for this State. If his absence for a short time will not interfere with his trial and your Excellency has no objection, I would recommend him for the indulgence requested."

GLC02437.01617

1792 circa

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document

Title: [Facts pertaining to a land dispute between William Tudor and General Jackson]

Circa date is based on the year the dispute took place. Jackson (possibly Henry Jackson of Massachusetts) and Tudor, acting as agents for separate companies, made offers for the same parcel of land to the Eastern Committee for Lands. A competition for the lands ensued after Jackson accused Tudor of driving up the land price. Presents details of the case. Possibly refers to William Tudor, a member of George Washington's staff during the Revolutionary War, and later a Massachusetts statesman.

GLC02437.09448

circa 29 August 1790

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [draft of a letter to George Washington regarding possible British troop movements from Detroit]

This appears to be a preliminary draft of Knox's 29 August 1790 letter to George Washington (in the GW Papers at the Library of Congress) responding to Washington's secret communication of 27 August. In that communication, sent to the members of his Cabinet, Washington asked for opinions as to the proper response to take if the British asked for permission to travel across U.S. territory, from Detroit to the Mississippi, in order to attack Spanish posts. See 02437.08217 for Knox's first draft. See also GLC02437.04709 and GLC02437.08216 for related drafts.

GLC02437.09449

10 April 1782

Yellis, Gilbert, fl. 1782

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Certificate of election]

Certificate of election enclosed with letter from John Taylor to William Livingston (GLC01412.64.12.01), signed by Yellis Gilbert, the Clerk of Artillery, and dated 10 April 1782. Gilbert certifies that Lupp was elected captain and Nessis was elected lieutenant. See previous record.

GLC01412.64.12.02

18 August 1782

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Richard Frothingham

Writes, "In the return of persons in the department of military stores in the field which you made on the 6th instant, no mention is made of Mr. Marshall as being in the service. He says that you have discharged him from your books, from the 10th March last, and that yesterday was the first time of his being notified of it. Notwithstanding his having been employed under Mr. [John] Ruddock since that period to the present. The General desires to know the reasons which occasioned the dismissal of Mr. Marshall in this manner, and that you will make inquiry of Mr. Ruddock to know whether he…

GLC02437.01530

23 August 1782

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript letter

Title: to James Giles

Written in the hand of Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide-de-camp; he has also signed for Knox. Certifies that Mr. James Giles was employed as a conductor of military stores from December 1776 until September 1778, when he was offered a position in the corps of artillery. Verifies that his pay as conductor was 30 dollars per month until February 1778, when, by a resolve of Congress, it was raised to 40 dollars per month.

GLC02437.01536

27 August 1782

Morris, Robert, 1734-1806

Manuscript letter

Title: to Benjamin Lincoln

Marked "copy." Written from the "Office of Finance." Addressee inferred because letter is addressed to "Secretary at War," a post occupied in 1782 by Benjamin Lincoln. Writes, "I have received your letter of the nineteenth of August, and would have answered it more speedily could I have answered it satisfactorily. I must now inform you that I cannot undertake to pay the sums you mention for the purchase of shells without diverting money from services which are indispensable. Many such services are now suffering." Written in the hand of William Jackson, Lincoln's assistant. Signer of…

GLC02437.01542

29 August 1782

Paterson, John, 1744-1808

Autograph letter signed

Title: Garrison orders

Writes, "The officers of the Second Regiment of Artillery and Corps of Sappers and Miners in this Garrison are to form a Garrison Court Martial for the tryal of Philip Francis of [illegible] Regiment & Peggy Martin - Captain Moody [possibly Andrew Moodie] President three officers from the second Regt one from the Corps of Sappers & Miners are to for the Court." Signed as brigadier general. See GLC02437.10041 for a report of the trial.

GLC02437.01548

31 August 1782

Marshall, Samuel B., fl. 1782

Manuscript document signed

Title: Return of provisions and stores on hand in the magazine at West Point

Return, addressed to Knox, lists items like beef, pork, flour, and soap, and their quantities.

GLC02437.01555

1 September 1782

Townsend, David, 1753-1829

Autograph document signed

Title: [Report on Charles McCormick]

Writes, "The bearer Charles McCormick of Col. Hazen's Regt. now in Provost has the venereal disease which daily increases in malignity, and will continue to grow worse upon him while he remains in his present situation, where he cannot have the necessary remedies administered for his complaints." Signed by a Dr. [probably David] Townsend, Hospital Surgeon.

GLC02437.01557

1 September 1782

Manuscript document

Title: Returns of the suttlers names, in the garrison of West Point, & by whome licensed

Lists the names of sutlers, or merchants who sold food and drink to troops, and lists who licensed them. Sutlers include Simon Richards, William Foot, James McMasters, Asa Spauldin, Samuel Warrin, Roger Magrath Gatsey, Mrs. Current, John Andrews, William Adams, Aaron Thompson, Able Boyington-Dunlap, Ezra Eaton, John Sullivan, and Mr. England. Licensing authorities include Generals [Alexander] McDougal, [William] Heath and [John] Paterson, and Colonels [John] Crane and Shephard [possibly William Shepard].

GLC02437.01561

2 September 1782

Starr, Thomas, fl. 1782

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Elnathan Haskell

Likely written by Lieutenant Thomas Starr of the 2nd Connecticut Regiment. Says that the Sergeants Guard, which has been under his command, has arrived. Asks Captain Haskell whether he should remain with them "here" (possibly West Point) or join his regiment at Verplanks Point.

GLC02437.01565

5 September 1782

Hand, Edward, 1744-1802

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Written from Camp Verplanks Point, present-day Verplanck, New York. Writes, "Captain Reiley [possibly John Reily] of the Invalid regiment tried the 30th ultimo by the General Court martial of which Colo. M [possibly Michael] Jackson is president is acquitted and released from his arrest. The Invalid regiment will furnish a Captain to Sit as Member of the General Court martial of which Colo. M. Jackson is president vice Captain Story of the 8 Massa. regiment indisposed. Extract from General Orders." May be the extract of orders referred to in GLC02437.01579.

GLC02437.01580

6 September 1782

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Edward Hand

Writes, "The bearers will deliver you the return from the artillery, which with the enclosed, completes the returns of the corps in this garrison for the last month. Gen. [Henry] Knox has directed me to transmit you the report of a court of inquiry on LC Barber (of [Colonel John] Crane's) for exceeding the limits of his furlough. As Mr. Barber's absence was published in General [William] Heath's orders for the department, he wishes that his acquittal may, if you have no objection, be inserted in General Orders, that the one may be as generally known in the army as the other." (See GLC02437…

GLC02437.01584

7 September 1782-8 September 1782

Hand, Edward, 1744-1802

Autograph document signed

Title: [General orders]

Written from Head Quarters Verplanks Point, present-day Verplanck, New York. "Public" is written above the address. Includes "Extracts from Genl. Orders" for two days, 7 and 8 September. The extract from 7 September states, "Lieutenant Osgood Carleton of the Invalid Regiment is appointed Quarter Master to the same vice Lieutenant [William] Honeyman who assigns that office." The extract from 8 September states, "A court of enquiry of which Colonel [Benjamin] Tupper was President sat at West Point by a Garrison order of the 4th instant to enquire into the sufficiency of the reasons alledged…

GLC02437.01587

7 September 1782

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Edward Hand

Writes, "General [Henry] Knox transmitted the report of the Court of Inquiry on LC Barber, as well for his Excellency's decision as for its being published to the army; he not thinking himself authorized to decide in this case it having been designated by Genl [William] Heath, then commanding in the Department."

GLC02437.01590

9 September 1782

Tilghman, Tench, 1744-1786

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Samuel Shaw

Written from "Head Quarters." Writes, "I would ever wish to pay proper attention to the business of Ladies, but without I am acquainted with the Resolve of the 6 July 1779 in [favor?] of Mrs. [Margaret] Corbin, I cannot tell what it is she wants - We have not the Resolves of that date with us." See GLC02437.01591, GLC02437.01595, and GLC02437.01611 for related information.

GLC02437.01591

10 September 1782

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Tench Tilghman

Writes that it is not in his power to send him Congress's resolve of 6 July 1779, concerning Margaret Corbin. Explains that her case is "peculiar": "Her husband and son killed and herself wounded in the services, were misfortunes of so aggravated as justly rendered her worthy of public attention." Congress has provided her with "a complete ration per day, and half pay for life," which Colonel [Lewis] Nicola helped her apply for, but she has received very little of the rations and pay she deserves. Explains that "[h]er present application is in consequence of the rum or whiskey which…

GLC02437.01595

11 September 1782

Tilghman, Tench, 1744-1786

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Samuel Shaw

Writes, "It appears clearly to me that the order forbidding the issue of Rum to Women does not extend to Mrs. [Margaret] Corbin - Granting provision at all, to Women who are followers of the Army, is altogether matter of courtesy, and therefore the commanding General may allow them such a Ration as he thinks proper - But Mrs. Corbin is a pensioner of Congress, and therefore, upon procuring the Resolve made in her favor - Genl. [Henry] Knox, as commandant, may direct the Contractor to commute her Retained Rations of liquor - perhaps it would not be prudent to give them to her all in liquor -…

GLC02437.01597