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Extract of a Letter from Major Gaither to the Secretary of War, dated | Extract of a Letter from Major Gaither to the Secretary of War, dated | ||
− | Augusta September | + | Augusta September 3 .<sup>d</sup> , 1793. |
− | "The Militia | + | "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" | ||
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