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- GLC#
- GLC02437.04869-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 4 March 1791
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to John Doughty
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 32.2 cm, Width: 20.1 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
With the approval of President George Washington and the "advice of the Senate," Knox writes to Doughty that he has been appointed "Lieutenant Colonel Commander of an additional regiment, of Infantry...immediately raised." This includes "1 company in [South] Carolina, 1 in Delaware, 1 Rhode Island, 1 New Hampshire, Six in Massachusetts, and two in Connecticut." The officers and Major General have also been appointed on this day. Docketed by Knox.
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