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To George Washington from Henry Knox, 27 August 1791

From Henry Knox

War Department [Philadelphia] 27 August 1791. Informs GW that Lieutenant Sherman of the Rhode Island Company of the Second U.S. Regiment “has left his company on the march” and desires to resign his commission: “from received knowledge of his character, . . . his resignation will not injure the service.”1

LS, DLC:GW; LB, DLC:GW.

1. Lt. Henry Sherman, Jr. (1759–1829), served as an officer of Rhode Island troops in the Continental army during the American Revolution from 1777 to 1783 and was recommissioned on 4 Mar. 1791. His resignation was accepted effective 27 August.

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    To George Washington from Henry Knox, 27 August 1791
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    Washington, George
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    “To George Washington from Henry Knox, 27 August 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-08-02-0322. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 8, 22 March 1791 – 22 September 1791, ed. Mark A. Mastromarino. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999, p. 458.]

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