BIB_ID
116833
Accession number
MA 489.55
Creator
Stewart, Walter, 1756-1796.
Display Date
1782 Sept. 4.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 33.2 cm
Notes
Address panel to "The Honourable / Brigadier Gen'l Hand / Adjutant General to the / American Army."
Endorsed on verso.
This item is part of a collection of letters and documents concerning the siege of Yorktown and the surrender of Cornwallis; see main record for MA 488-489 for more information.
Endorsed on verso.
This item is part of a collection of letters and documents concerning the siege of Yorktown and the surrender of Cornwallis; see main record for MA 488-489 for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from New York dealer Joseph F. Sabin, 1907.
Summary
Concerning the order of troops by height when in a parade or review; suggesting the importance of having the shortest men in the front of the ranks unless "Elegance is to be attended to, the tallest men should then supply the place of the small ones in the front rank."
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