To George Washington from Henry Knox, 5 February 1792
From Henry Knox
5 Feby 1792.
Sir
I will examine the several objects of your queries and observations and let you know the result. I have the honor now to submit a return of the troops,1 I am most respectfully Your humble Servt
H.Knox
ALS, DLC:GW; LB, DLC:GW.
1. For GW’s request for a return of all troop dispositions in the U.S. Army, see Henry Knox to Tobias Lear, 31 Jan. 1792, n.1. The enclosed “Return of the Troops in the service of the United States,” dated 4 Feb. 1792 and signed by Knox, reads:
Non commisd & privates | |||
At | Fort Washington | 459 | |
Fort Jefferson | 117 | ||
Fort Hamilton | 104 | ||
Fort Knox | 107 | ||
Rapids of Ohio | 17 | ||
Muskingum | 43 | ||
Blockhouse at the Dry Ridge | 12 | ||
Fort Franklin | 35 | ||
Pittsburg | 146 | ||
On Command—escorting Mr Ludlow the Surveyor—attending sick—in pursuit of deserters &c. &c. | 44 | ||
Detachment of 2d Regt under Captain Cushing probably assigned at Fort Washington | 122 | ||
1,206 On the Western frontiers. | |||
In | Georgia | 326 | |
Philadelphia | 50 | ||
Reading | 20 | ||
New York | 7 | ||
West-Point | 33 | ||
Middletown Connecticut | 11 | ||
Springfield Massachusetts | 14 | ||
Boston | 19 | ||
Actually in service | 1,686 | ||
Deficient | 442 | ||
Establishment 2,128 Non commisd & privates. |
(DLC:GW). A footnote indicated that “Burbeck’s & late Savage’s companies of artillery—Smiths of 1st Regt & Roberts &c. Mills’s of 2d Regt infantry” made up the troops in Georgia. On 9 Feb. Knox sent Lear for delivery to the president maps of Josiah Harmar’s and Arthur St. Clair’s marches, as well as an “old Magazine” in which was published GW’s journal of his Fort Necessity campaign, which Knox requested to be returned (DLC:GW). Lear returned the maps and the magazine to Knox on 17 Feb. (DLC:GW).