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Extract of a Letter from Major Gaither to the Secretary of War, dated Augusta September 3 .d , 1793. "The Militia now in service, appear to me to be improperly called by the Governor, and in a greater number than is actually necessary. I have urged the necessity of making [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for the defenses of the frontier; with the Federal troops and the hundred Cavalry and hundred infantry ordered to be revised, and put under my command by the President of the United States, and should that numbre prove insufficient to guard the frontier then to call out as many Militia as could be thought necessary. These measures did not meet with his approbate nor has he made any appointments, arrangements or any attempt to raise that number of men. Therefore I do not wish to know any thing to do with the Militia nor [undecipherable] unless they are subject to my orders"