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I wrote you a few days ago from Albany of my intentions to send a party to attack the enemy at Unadilla, last night I sent off my advanced party & am just marching the body consisting of above 200 men—I take the command of the party myself, & hope on my return to be able to give your Excellency a satisfactory account of the expedition. This will be delivered your Excellency by Capt. Long, an...
Letter not found : from Lt. Col. William Butler, 13 Aug. 1778. On 24 Aug., GW wrote Butler : “I recd yours of the 13th instant dated at Schohary.” Butler wrote New York governor George Clinton on 13 Aug.: “I have wrote to his Excellency Genl. Washington informing him of my situation &c. of the same date” (Hastings, Clinton Papers , 3:632).
Letter not found: from Lt. Col. William Butler, 28 Oct. 1778. GW wrote Butler on 12 Nov. : “your letter of the 28th Ulto was duly communicated by Doctor Jones.”
Letter not found: from William Butler, 9 Dec. 1778. On 16 Dec., GW wrote Butler : “I have received your Letter of the 9th Instant.”
Your letter of the 13th Instant I received Yesterday, my most Grateful Acknowledgment is due your Excellency for the good Opinion you are pleased to mention of me & it shall ever be my Study to Merit the Honor your Excellency has done me. Matters is Quiet here at present—Since my last I have had three Scouts out consisting of about 150 Men they continued out six days & have been on the Heads...
Your letter of the 11th Instant came to hand the 20th; the Contents of which I shall punctually observe. Inclosed I send your Excellency Copies of some depositions concerning one of my parties under the Command of Major Posey Killing one Demon who Attempted making his escape after the party had made him Prisoner of which I wrote your Excellency in my last —Complaint having been made to Govr...
I beg leave to trouble your Excellency upon a subject that greatly concerns me: from the honor done me in commands, very respectable and somewhat singular from any Officer of my Rank in the Army, and having sufficient reason to believe that every part of my conduct, whilst then acting met with your excellency’s approbation, I am induced at this time to inform you a true state of my feelings....
I arived at this post the 22d Ult. after Tedious Journey and Obliged to Travil about Forty miles of the last of it on Foot the snow Being so Deep, and is yet too Deep to get A Horse Through the woods, Am Making Preparation to Joine as soon as Possible—I think it my duty to Inform your Excellency with the late Transaction of the Enemy near this Post on the 27th March as three men were at work...
This Waits on you with a return of the Garrision we have lately had a Visit from the Enemy. a Party of twenty five men one of Whom Disarted to us, his Account I have Inclos’d, the[y] have took seven men Prisioners, that had Moved four miles from the Garrision, with their families, they Left the Women and Children unhurt. took the Men and Provisions and some Clothing with them, and Pushed of[f]...
When I was first Ordered to the Command of this Post it was from the Board of war and Soon After recd Acct from Colo. Hartley that he Command’d at Sunsbury and Wyoming I Made my Returns to him as Belonging to his Command Repeatedly Representing the Necessity of more Men at this Post—A Part of Colo. Hartleys Regt as Youll Se by Inclosd Return are at this post, I Conclude Colo. Hartley has Made...