[Copy] War department 18^th August 1791. Sir I have received your letter of the eleventh instant and which was been submitted to the President of the United States I enclose a duplicate of mine to you of the same date. You will receive herewith the Commissions for Major Birke's Battalion according to the list you sent on which the enclosed is a Copy and also the Blank Commissions for the Additional Company which it is presumed has gone down the Ohio with you. As you will probably receive this at Head Quarters, there is not now any thing to add to my former communications. The information you transmitted in your last on the [undecipherable] among the troops is daily pressing and it is to be hoped will pervade all the army. I most sincerely hope that the Campaign will be conducted with the highest order and success, so as to cover all concerned from the general down to the recruits with glory and satisfaction. I am the honor &c Henry Knox Major General Butler a L. [Endorsed: No. 23.]