Henry Knox to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 20 June 1793
Henry Knox to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr.
[Philadelphia] 20th June 1793
Dear Sir
Please to submit the enclosed letter to the President of the U.S. from Major Gaither—dated 23d May 93.1 I am Dear Sir Your humble Servt
H. Knox
ALS, DLC:GW; LB, DLC:GW.
1. Another writer added the phrase containing the date of Henry Gaither’s letter to Knox. Gaither, writing from Fort Fidius in Georgia, reported that residents of the Georgia frontier were fleeing their homes in fear of an Indian attack and that Georgia governor Edward Telfair was planning to gather militia for an expedition against the Indians. Despite providing the frontier residents with arms, Gaither wrote, “I am in a very disagreeable position here, occasioned by a suspicion, among the people, that I have power to call the militia into service, and afford them protection” ( 1:421). GW’s executive journal contains information from Gaither, about an impending court-martial, that is not in the printed version of Gaither’s letter ( , 184).