[Page 1 — Illegible Text placeholder: archivists note that some or all pages of this file are wholly or in part illegible and no better copy could be located] [Page 2 — page severely damaged; text wholly illegible; visible at bottom:] [undecipherable] July 31 Lieutenant In^t Brett Hartford 1 [undecipherable] [Page 3:] [undecipherable], [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Your letter of the 26^th ult has been received. I am now particularly sorry at your disappointments, as the company from West Point must march by the 5^th or 6^th of August at furthest [undecipherable: such as it] [could] not be quite completed. I beg you therefore to urge the march instantly of the party mentioned in your letter of the 26^th if you should not have marched previously to the receipt of my letter. I am &c Your Humble Serv^t HKnox [Lt. [undecipherable]]