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State House, Augusta
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Extract of a Letter from Major Gaither to the Secretary of War, dated
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7.<sup>th</sup> September. 1793.
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Augusta September 3 .<sup>d</sup> , 1793.
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Ordered, that the Mayor Gaither be notified,
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"The Militia now in service, appear to me to
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that the critical situation of the frontier settlers at this period will
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be improperly called by the Governor, and in a greater number than
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not admit of any departure from the present arrangement.
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is actually necessary. I have urged the necessity of making [undecipherable]
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Attest
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[undecipherable] for the defenses of the frontier; with the Federal troops
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W Urquhart S.E.D.  
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and the hundred Cavalry and hundred infantry ordered to be
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revised, and put under my command by the President of the  
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United States, and should that numbre prove insufficient to guard
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the frontier then to call out as many Militia as could be thought
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necessary. These measures did not meet with his approbate nor
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has he made any appointments, arrangements or any attempt to
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raise that number of men. Therefore I do not wish to know
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any thing to do with the Militia nor [undecipherable] unless they are
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subject to my orders"
  
 
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