BIB_ID
121263
Accession number
MA 489.21
Creator
Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810.
Display Date
1781 Dec. 12.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal to "The Hon'ble / Major General Greene / Head Quarters / South Carolina."
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
Requesting, in his new position as Secretary at War, information on the state of supplies in the departments of "Clothiers, - the Quarters Masters - Commissary of Military Stores and medical;" reporting that arrangements are being made for a Georgia Line and asking him for the dates of commissions of the officers.
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