Created page with "[stamp] Received from State Dep't Nov. 24, 1894 R.P.O. 401310 August 15th 1794 Sir song time last February I received a letter H from the governor of Virginia cover..."
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     song time last February I received a letter H from the governor of Virginia covering a H dispatch from the secretary, of war H requesting his excellency 2 illegible the public H store at illegible under his protection H and to make what arrangements he H should think best for there illegible effectual H preservation and security inconforme TH to this request I issued orders from the governor age illegible illegible a guard over the Arsenal to commit H of
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     song time last February I received a letter H from the governor of Virginia covering a H dispatch from the secretary, of war H requesting his excellency 2 illegible the public H store at illegible under his protection H and to make what arrangements he H should think best for there illegible effectual H preservation and security inconforme TH to this request I received orders from the governor age illegible illegible a guard over the Arsenal to commit H of illegible man with a promise that the soldiers H should receive their pay monthly, this order
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I have lon since obeyed but I have not yet received
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any past of their pay. The men have become
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clamorous on account of it and it has been
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with difficulty that I have to tell them to
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their duty-- In addition to the above
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_ add that from apprehensions onto
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ctained of an Insurrection of the Negros
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last Fall prisons to the establishment
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of the Guard alluded to, I thought it my duty
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to call out a party of the Militia to guard
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this