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ARMSTRONG TO HARRISON War Dept. 14 June 1813. Sir, The commissions may be bestowed as you propose in your letter of the 5th instant. My preceeding letters have authorised you to assemble the troops where you may think best -- keeping in view their prompt embark- ation when the vessels shall be ready for action. The cloathing for the three new Regts has been long since on the road for Chilicothe & New-port. The orders given for issuing half a ration per man extra may have been justified by the Circumstances of the siege, but one ought to have terminated with those. I have not received thelist of prisoners of war who have enlisted. There is on the subject of exchanges an obstinacy & insolence on the part of Sir George Prevost, which must be corrected. It would be of much importance to have circulated among the hostile tribes of Indians the late occurences on the lake Ontario & Niagara river. How could this be done? The enemy will no doubt endeavor to keep these poor wretches in the dark The whole number of Dep. Commissaries of Ordinance authorised by law is four. I have proposed to Congress to add five more. This proposition if adopted will give room for Mr. Richardson. I am very respectfully your most Obed. St. John Armstrong Major Gen. Harrison 98 |
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