General Wilkinson's Report on the Western Army

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Type

Copy of Signed Document

Description

General Wilkinson submits his report on events in the Southern Disgtrict.to the Secretary of War for late 1798.

Date

01/10/1799

Author

James Wilkinson

Recipient

James McHenry

Sent from

Loftus's Heights

Repository

Library of Congress: Manuscript Division

Collection

Alexander Hamilton Papers

Document number

1799011040101

Page start

1

Note

A fourteen page document that is partially illegible.

Notable persons

James McHenry
James Wilkinson
Mr. Stanley
Governor of the Territory
laborers
emigrants
the Spanish
troops
men of loose morals and unsettled dispositions
Governor of Louisiana
subaltern
guide and interpreter
Chickasaw King
chiefs and warriors
contractors
Quartermaster
convalescents
Major Kingsbury
Capt. Richards
Choctaw Nation
Commissioners
savages
Governor Sargent
Upper Creeks

Notable locations

Headquarters, Loftus's Heights on the Mississippi
Natchez
Alabama River
Knoxville
Post Office in Nashville
Kentucky
Pittsburgh
Atlantic States
New Orleans
the Ohio
Christian settlements

Notable items

river
duplicate of that dispatch
health
cantonment
public service
asylum
bounties of land
Captain's command
high wages to laborers
artillery
ammunition
stores
provisions
desertions
light pieces of ordnance
tools
clothing
quartermasters stores
garrison
confluence
calamities
bad temperement of the Upper Creeks
mail
necessary supplies
medicine
climate
pallisades
floods
line of demarcation
Treaty of Friendship
navigation of the large river
blankets
shirts
guns
petition for Congress
petition
hostilities
battery