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Butler, Zebulon, 1731-1795 [Recommendation for a leave of absence for Captain Lemuel Clift]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.09587 Author/Creator: Butler, Zebulon, 1731-1795 Place Written: West Point, New York Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 22 December 1782 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 10.8 cm, Width: 23.3 cm Order a Copy

Colonel Butler recommends Clift for a sixty day leave of absence. Directs his request to Major General Henry Knox.

Butler, Zebulon, 1731-1795
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Clift, Lemuel, 1755-1821

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