Commission Errors
Document 1797Discusses an officer in the Georgia line who burned his commission, and that there may have been errors in the commissions.
[undecipherable] , that he is returned on the arrangement of the Georgia line, as having Burned his Commission in disgust to the disservice That the Commission which came enclosed in your letter appears to have been given originally to some other person of a different rank, whose name has been erased, and that of Edward Wood inserted in the place of it. and that by a resolution of Congress limiting the initiation of all army [undecipherable] 1780 [undecipherable]
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