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To George Washington from James McHenry, 11 March 1796

From James McHenry

War office 11 March 1796

Sir.

I have the honour to inclose you a letter just received from Gen. Wilkinson with sundry returns and papers shewing the state of the army.1 With the greatest respect I am Sir your Excellencys Most ob. St

James McHenry

ALS, DLC:GW; LB, DLC:GW.

1. The enclosed documents have not been identified. McHenry may have enclosed James Wilkinson’s letter of 10 Feb. (not identified). A summary by McHenry of Wilkinson’s letters of 31 Jan. and 10 Feb. reveals the latter to have been a twenty-one-page litany of complaints about Gen. Anthony Wayne’s orders to him and the state of the command left him upon Wayne’s departure for Philadelphia (DLC:GW).

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    “To George Washington from James McHenry, 11 March 1796,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-19-02-0447. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 19, 1 October 1795–31 March 1796, ed. David R. Hoth. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, p. 548.]

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