BIB_ID
125020
Accession number
MA 1269.3
Creator
Manley, John Pearse, -1824.
Display Date
1807 Nov. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.7 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
Volume 12 (MA 1269) of a 33-volume collection of the correspondence of Sir James Pulteney, his family and distinguished contemporaries. (MA 487, MA 297 and MA 1260-1290). The arrangement of the collection is alphabetical by the author of the letter. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information (MA 1269.1-63).
Volume 12 (MA 1269) of a 33-volume collection of the correspondence of Sir James Pulteney, his family and distinguished contemporaries. (MA 487, MA 297 and MA 1260-1290). The arrangement of the collection is alphabetical by the author of the letter. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information (MA 1269.1-63).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Offering several suggestions with respect to the Volunteers; suggesting the "Government should have the carriage to take Volunteers to & from camp, itself to answer the purpose of tents & be a kind of moveable huts, which will keep the men at camp warm at night in the winter and also should attach a piece of cannon to the carriage of every ten or twelve companies, with one horse to each; and another one man out of each draft of every company, should act as an artillery man. I very much fear, if the present Volunteers were called on, in this present half disciplined state, that it would not be in the power of any military man to get six Regiments of them to act together, without confusion among the men but the officers more particularly. Form the Volunteers three deep; march them by Reg'ts in file; or form companies, if the left be in front, would create confusion. A pretty business would they make were the given camp equipage on a sudden, to use it. I farm a little myself & feel the evil of which the Farmers complain; in having too many men out at one time, on permanent duty but a twelfth part of the Volunteers would not be felt wanting, if always out."
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