Draft Letter

Letter, discusses the appointment of officers for the new provisional army.

10/30/1798

War Department

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George Washington

James McHenry

President

Mrs Adams

General Pinckney

General Hamilton

General Knox.

War Department

Philadelphia.

letter

health so low and her life so precarious that it will be impossible for him to leave her till it becomes absolutely necessary for him to meet

regret extremely this circumstance

deprived of his opinions

Generals

I should judge it necessary that the officers of battalions should be appointed before the meeting of Congress

commissions

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inclosed is a copy of a letter from General Knox declining the appointment

I flatter it will be in your power to give your attendance on or about the 20th of November next at this city or Philad

letters and recommendations respecting candidates

southern district

officers who continued in service to the end of our revolutionary war.