[Major General St. Clair to the Secretary of War] Camp on the waters of white River, 17^th October 1791. Sir, Since I wrote to you on the 1^st I have been on the point of losing the Virginia battalion — it is a considerable time ago that I knew of some discontents in that Corps, but was led to believe it was among the officers only on account of the appointment of Captain Darke; whereby M^r Glen an officer who had raised a number of men and was respected, became a supernumerary and was thrown out of command; the giving him an appointment [undecipherable: in the cavalry] made them easy on that score, but it was not long after before I learned that the time of Service of many of the men would soon expire, and that they were determined to insist upon their being discharged at the end of six months from their enlistment. I immediately applied to Darke for information on this subject and he assured me that none of them were intitled to their discharges until six months after the time of rendez vous, but seemed not to know very well where that was, whether at Winchester or at the Frontiers. that however made me easy, concluding that, should the be calculated from their assembling at Winchester, the [strikethrough: part of their] Service which would be most necessary would be covered by it.