Report on the conduct of Lieutenant Smith
Document 1798Reports that Lieutenant Campbell Smith for "villainous conduct and mutinous disposition" for declaring the Secretary of War and other officers of state to be a "set of damned eternal rascals" in his presence at Pittsburgh.
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[Docket: July 19th 1798
D. Campbell Smith's
abuse of the
Secy of war &c &c]
the Honble
James McHenry
Secretary of War
Philadelphia 19. July 1798.
Sir
I think it a duty I owe to the executive as well as to my own honor to report Lieut. Campbell Smith of the 9. Regt. for his villainous conduct [underline: & vicious disposition] in declaring that the Secretary of War, & all the other Officers of State, were a set of damned eternal rascals this language Lieut. Smith made use of in his presence at [undecipherable]
I have the honor to be
your obt Servt
[signature]
Capt. 3d [U.S.?] Regt.
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Reports that Lieutenant Campbell Smith for "villainous conduct and mutinous disposition" for declaring the Secretary of War and other officers of state to be a "set of damned eternal rascals" in his presence at Pittsburgh.
Date
07/19/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Repository
Collection
Document number
1798071940201
Page start
1
Notable persons
James McHenry
Thomas Lewis
Campbell Smith
regiment
officers
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh