Queries to Lincoln, and answers

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Queries to Lincoln, and answers

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GLC02437.01942-View header record
Type
Documents
Date
February 21, 1783
Author/Creator
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Title
Queries to Lincoln, and answers
Place Written
West Point, New York
Pagination
4 p. : docket ; Height: 33.6 cm, Width: 21.2 cm
Primary time period
The New Nation, 1783-1815
Sub-Era
Creating a New Government

Signed at the conclusion by Benjamin Lincoln. Pages divided into two columns. The left column contains sixteen issues about which Knox would like further direction and information from General Benjamin Lincoln. Some of these include questions and concerns about artillery, ordnance, artillery men, and their pay. The right column has Lincoln's reply concerning the respective issues. The entire document is written in the hand of Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide de camp.

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