Affair of Lt. Marks, etc.
Document 1800Lt. Marks was tapped with a cane by Maj. Kersey, whom he had highly provoked, and then he sought the major out, struck him with a cane and then ran him through the body, an act of dastardly assassination.
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Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Lt. Marks was tapped with a cane by Maj. Kersey, whom he had highly provoked, and then he sought the major out, struck him with a cane and then ran him through the body, an act of dastardly assassination.
Date
03/24/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Fort Adams [Mississippi Territory]
Document number
1800032460700
Note
References Wilkinson to Hamilton, March 7, 1800.
Published in Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. XXIV, 359-361.
Notable persons
James Wilkinson
Alexander Hamilton
troops
Major William Kersey
Lieutenant Peter S. Marks
Captain Zebulon Pike
Captain John Heth
William Rickard
John Wade
Aaron Gregg
John Steele
Lieutenant Colonel Gaither
Major Cushing
Captain Guion
Notable locations
Fort Adams
Mississippi River
New York
New Orleans
Fort McHenry
Chickasaw Bluffs
Fort Pickering
Notable items
Snow Acteon
ordnance
public stores
court martial
armed vessel
death