1To Thomas Jefferson from William Clayton, 16 March 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
In Order to Justify my conduct (as also those of our militia) for not complying fully with the Requisitions lately made on the Militia by your Excellency and General Nelson, I beg leave to lay before you a true State of the whole Men, taken from the Proceedings of a Court-Martial held yesterday for that purpose. The whole number of Privates are 350–75 of whom were by the Court Adjudged unfit...