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ARMSTRONG TO HARRISON

War Department

21st May 1813

Sir,

The letters you did me the honor to write to me on the 5th. 9th & 13th instant have been received and submitted to the President who has been pleased to direct that I should communicate to you & through you, to the troops composing the garrison of Fort Meigs, his thanks for the valor & patriotism displayed in the defense of that place, & particularly by the Corps employed in the sorties made on the 5th instant.

Your future requisitions for Ordinance stores will be governed by the quantity of hand at Fort Meigs & Franklinton & the number & caliber of the peices you propose to take with you against Malden. Tour whole train, if I am well informed, amounts to thirty five peices, of which there are eighteen pounders.

The 24th Regt. was on the 10th. inst at Lexington (K) on their way to Cleveland. You will give to it any other point of rendezvous you may think proper, and adopt such means to assemble the other parts of your Dovision, as will be most adviseable. On this head, I would but suggest that the arrangement which shall best mask your real design and most impress the enemy with a belief that your march to Malden will be by land, will be the bst. Cloathing for the 26th. 27th. & 28th. Regts has been forwarded from Philadelphia.

The last accounts of the boats preparing by Major Jessup were favorable. That officer will necessarily report to you and take your orders.

Gen. Proctor's proposition concerning the Indians within our limits was artful, & perhaps but meant to excite suspicions of them, on one part while it held out to the Indians, the paternal regards of H.B. Majesty.

I have the honor to be Sir, with great respect Your Most Obedient & very humble servant.

John Armstrong

Major General Harrison Franklinton or Delaware State of Ohio

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