Derby, Samuel Gardner, 1767-1843 to Thomas Oakes
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01450.720.07 Author/Creator: Derby, Samuel Gardner, 1767-1843 Place Written: Salem, Massachusetts Type: Autograph letter signed Date: June 26, 1814 Pagination: 1 p. : address Height: 24 cm, Width: 20 cm Order a Copy
Derby orders Captain Oakes of the first regiment of Massachusetts militia to "visit the Guard of Sentinels at Hospital point & elsewhere to night as Guard Rounds." The United States was then engaged in The War of 1812. Derby was a brigadier general.
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