[N° 57 To Major Gen^l Knox Sec^y for War] Legion Ville 29 April 1793 Sir, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 20^th instant with the enclosures to which due attention will be had. Some of the boats proving leaky after loading I was obliged to postpone the embarkation until tomorrow morning at reveille. Enclosed is a General Return of the Legion up to the 28^th instant, which is as accurate as circumstances will admit. The respective Garrisons from Mead's station on the Alleghany to Fort Jefferson & Fort Knox inclusive at the lowest estimate requires eight hundred & forty four men, which would leave a surplus of 2412 total aggregate The total aggregate returns present fit for duty including every Post, Garrison & quarter are 2180. So that we can't possibly count upon more than [underline: two thousand] effective operating troops officers included after leaving the necessary Garrisons, and allowing for other casualties: those in care of the waggon pursuing [undecipherable] we ought to call forth [underline: two thousand] mounted volunteers in place of [underline: one thousand]; and these ought to receive immediate orders to hold themselves in readiness to march at the shortest notice and conditional appointments to be made and Commissions to issue accordingly. I pray you therefore to give me further and particular instructions upon this head. — I am Sir, your most obed^t very hum^l Serv^t Wayne P.S. my mind is in such a state of torture for the recent loss of my long loved and ever esteemed Maria, that I had nearly forgot your requisition "to be informed of the circumstances attending the death of Ensign Gasaway." — This business has been exaggerated and wrongly represented. — by the best information the following are the facts — an unfortunate misunderstanding took place between Ensign Gasaway & Lieut Jenifer the evening preceding the fatal catastrophe, which produced a challenge from Ensign Gasaway to Lieut. Jenifer It was agreed that they should stand back to back at a given distance, face advance and fire when & at what distance they or either of them thought proper. Ensign Gasaway fell. — [Major Gen^l Knox. Secretary of War]