[in the above] Head Quarters 6 Miles advance Saint Hodgdon Esq^r of Fort Jefferson Octo. 20^th 92 Sir I wrote you last from Hobsons Choice a copy of which you have enclosed — On the 7^th Inst the Army marched from the banks of the Ohio river after a very fatigurable [undecipherable] March and en- camped in this Ground on the morning of the 13^th without inter- ruption loss or Accident On the 11^th we lost Serjeants Plunket and [undecipherable] two valuable Men Commanding Officers of the Troop of Dragoons [undecipherable] a Forage on a few Indians within One Mile of the Camp