Troops Taken Prisoner, Information Gathered, Situation Unsafe for Travel
Document 1792Wilkinson now commanding Fort Hamilton provided intelligence gathered by Lieut. Gaines during his outing with a search party for captured soldiers. Kentucky volunteers and pack horses to arrive at Fort Jefferson tomorrow, main road unsafe for travel.
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No 30
Fort Washington
Junl 4th 1864 — &c
Sir
I have the Honor to write you on the Subject, also last month of Indian disorders of Frontier; Nor that I am sorry to convey you what I hope a few minutes since the information from Lt Harrison who I have been obliged to leave — — command before me as a the Garrn of this place — Before me set off yesterday morning there was prisoners from a roving Party within 80 acres of the Garrison — That He immediately set off with a small party to pursue them — under whose Guise, why does he make such reconaisance of the Enemies force, as obliged him to declare a priority, a that a few minutes of any consequence where the discharge having me be forced to be different — He also says that he there was one mile of from — Why I have been obliged to know Fort Hamilton and the time — must be a few minutes of the — Our Regiment in Chief of which I commanded can Agree or that place, while fully explain — I to be however can resume the documents as trying to enumerate, all the various instances of difficulty which have arisen — The Enemy's operations will be too often there, will be the march from Ft Jefferson — a Horse was expected — He [undecipherable] he — their Parties to before long by to — Appearances which cause it make one on the place, the friends in my Route to be Regulate, but forever far as my Route and duty of the man fully on various information of — — — — — — — as the present to feel the difficulty of my situation very severely, and
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Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Wilkinson now commanding Fort Hamilton provided intelligence gathered by Lieut. Gaines during his outing with a search party for captured soldiers. Kentucky volunteers and pack horses to arrive at Fort Jefferson tomorrow, main road unsafe for travel.
Date
11/04/1792
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Fort Washington
Repository
Collection
Document number
1792110440201
Page start
1
Notable persons
Henry Knox
James Wilkinson
Lieut Gaines
Doctor Hammill
Kentucky volunteers
volunteers
troops
prisoners
Indians
soldiers
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Fort Washington
Fort Jefferson
main road
garrison
enemy territory
frontier
Notable items
horses
pack horses
enclosures
letters

