Autograph Letter Signed

Letter, discusses court martial precedent; mentions Wilkinson.

08/08/1796

Cambridge

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James McHenry

William Vans Murray

Col. Wilkinson

Clinton Burgoyne

Cambridge

Baltimore

congress

misconduct of a commander

confidential

discipline & rewards merit

object of a thousand hostile passions among men who risk their lives daily

rank

competent in pointof Jurisdiction to try the general

President alone must judge from all the knowledge he can obtain by various ways

confidence is well placed

more political than military steps

local habitation

flatteringly expect of me upon the subject

commander of the army he cannot be tried by a court martial

articles of war

mode or even a basis upon which you can try the general commanding

presumed to be the active commder in chief as well as the constitutional head of the army

british army

instance of ageneral or an admiral being try'd

precedence of officers higher in command

inquiries under parliamentary guidance into their conduct

post is so out of my way