General Wilkinson's Report on the Western Army
Item
Type
Copy of Signed Document
Title
General Wilkinson's Report on the Western Army
Description
General Wilkinson submits his report on events in the Southern Disgtrict.to the Secretary of War for late 1798.
year created
1799
month created
01
day created
10
author
sent from location
Loftus's Heights
recipient
in collection
in image
note
A fourteen page document that is partially illegible.
notable person/group
James McHenry
James Wilkinson
Mr. Stanley
Governor of the Territory
laborers
emigrants
the Spanish
troops
men of loose morals and unsettled dispositions
Governor of Louisiana
subaltern
guide and interpreter
Chickasaw King
chiefs and warriors
contractors
Quartermaster
convalescents
Major Kingsbury
Capt. Richards
Choctaw Nation
Commissioners
savages
Governor Sargent
Upper Creeks
notable location
Headquarters, Loftus's Heights on the Mississippi
Natchez
Alabama River
Knoxville
Post Office in Nashville
Kentucky
Pittsburgh
Atlantic States
New Orleans
the Ohio
Christian settlements
notable item/thing
river
duplicate of that dispatch
health
cantonment
public service
asylum
bounties of land
Captain's command
high wages to laborers
artillery
ammunition
stores
provisions
desertions
light pieces of ordnance
tools
clothing
quartermasters stores
garrison
confluence
calamities
bad temperement of the Upper Creeks
mail
necessary supplies
medicine
climate
pallisades
floods
line of demarcation
Treaty of Friendship
navigation of the large river
blankets
shirts
guns
petition for Congress
petition
hostilities
battery
document number
1799011040101
page start
1
Item sets
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Document instances
| In image | In source | Location in source | |
|---|---|---|---|
| [view document] (14 pages) | WGL08 (14 pages) | Collection: Alexander Hamilton Papers | R: 15 |
Document names
| Type | Name | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Author | James Wilkinson | Loftus's Heights | [n/a] |
| Recipient | James McHenry | [unknown] | [n/a] |