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- GLC#
- GLC02437.06163-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 12 August 1794
- Author/Creator
- Stagg, John, Jr., 1758-1803
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 31.4 cm, Width: 19.4 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Informs Knox he ordered two more subalterns to depart immediately. Mentions the "insurgents continue their outrages in that quarter - They have burnt the barn of Major [Abraham] Kilpatrick, with a large quantity of grain, hay, &c." Reports on the number of militia men that have been called forth to suppress the uprising (possibly part of the Whiskey Rebellion). Notes the rioters now amount to 4,500 and are generally armed. Warns "Col [Thomas] Butler is threatened with proscription, and if the president [George Washington] does not remove him and his garrison that they will burn the Fort." Quotes a letter he received from General [Charles] Scott. Scott reports he will be moving out tomorrow with 1,594 volunteers to join General [Anthony] Wayne. General Scott is most likely referring to the build-up to the Battle of Fallen Timber that took place August 20, 1794.
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