[Rec^d May 6^th ans^d] [Brig^r Gen^l Scott] Philadelphia April 20^th 1794 Sir It is with real Concern that I hear the reports in circulation [strikethrough: in this place] [strikethrough: respecting injuries] to the Commander in Chief of the Legion I am yet not able to learn from what cause they have origi- nated among other things it has been hinted to me that he has reported the Conduct of the Officers of the Volunteer Corps that I had the honor to command last Campaign very unfavourably, [strikethrough: if he did] he has done them injustice in not Discriminating [strikethrough: between those and those] two Battalions that behaved ill & Disgraced the [strikethrough: Legion the] permanent [strikethrough: Regt I have too good] [strikethrough: an Opinion of] Gen^l Wayne to [strikethrough: suppose in the Practice of] Damning a whole Corps for the misconduct of two Battalions I am sure there could be no excuse for it, nor can I yet believe he has done it untill I am Convinced of it by Seeing his reports to You on that head I hope there is no impropriety in Your favoring me with a Sight of it — there are many other reports in Circulation here [strikethrough: highly] injurious to that Officer, I therefore think it my Duty as far as come within my own knowledge to do him the Justice he deserves — [strikethrough: I waited on] Gen^l Wayne [strikethrough: on the latter] end of June in order to make the Necessary arrangements Respecting Respecting the Volunteers of Kentucky [strikethrough: During] my stay I found him with great Sobriety & extreme attention to the Duty of the Army, from that time untill the 11^th of October at which time I joined him, we kept up a Constant Correspondence Relative to my duty, in [strikethrough: the which] I found him Clear & pointed in his instructions, from about the 6^th of October untill the fifth of Nov^r I was almost Constantly with him During all which time he paid the most Unwearied attention to every the most minutest thing [strikethrough: thing] Republick in person, notwithstanding all this I was unhappy to find some discontent in the army, whether it was owing to the Change of Discipline, the Difference between Garrison and [strikethrough: the Hardships of the] Field duty [strikethrough: or] the [strikethrough: many] unusual orders enforced, I cannot say they were all [strikethrough: I believe the] occasioned [strikethrough: by] [strikethrough: in a measure by] [undecipherable: Insubordination] So far as I am able to Judge taking every Difficulty into view the army was conducted with great Propriety, never loosing sight of the Publick good or the Honor [strikethrough: of the men] of the arms of the United States. I believe there is not an Officer that served with me & under Gen^l Wayne's orders but what will Cheerful- ly [undecipherable: bear him out in this] Gen^l Knox