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Moodie, Andrew, ?-1787 [Weekly return of the New York Corps of Artillery Commanded by Major Sebastian Bauman]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.10140 Author/Creator: Moodie, Andrew, ?-1787 Place Written: West Point, New York Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 19 September 1783 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 23.5 cm, Width: 35.5 cm Order a Copy

Lists numbers of majors, captains, surgeons mates, gunners, and other posts present and fit for duty, sick and present, on command, on extra duty, on the staff, on duty present, and absent with leave. Includes an illegible signature in addition to Moodie's. Verso contains a list of absentees accounted for, with the extent of their furlough.

Moodie, Andrew, ?-1787
Bauman, Sebastian, 1739-1803

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