Benjamin Lincoln A.L.S., War Office July 10 1782 : to General Nathanael Greene

Benjamin Lincoln A.L.S., War Office July 10 1782 : to General Nathanael Greene

[Philadelphia] 1782

[6] p. on 2 separately conjugate leaves ; 23 cm.

MSS L2007F87 M

General Greene, encamped in South Carolina, wrote earlier to Lincoln, the secretary of war, complaining of shortages of clothing and supplies for his men. Lincoln writes "...The sufferings of your troops have impressed me with the deepest concern - and the very painful sensations, which your relation of them excite, are poignantly enhanced by the reflection that these distresses should have been the lot of an army, not only entitled by special contract to better fare - but whose meritorious and gallant exertions, under the most extreme difficulties, merited a very different fate ..."; "I am happy to hear that the spirit of mutiny has in so great a degree subsided - I wish I could give you positive assurance that there would soon be such ample supplies furnished you as would do perfect justice to the troops ... Congress have directed the stores to be put in the most expeditious train - they had an intention that they should be sent by water - but this they did not express in the resolve, lest the enemy should get information of it ... General Wayne's success is important and honorable ... This refers to Anthony Wayne's victories in skirmishes in Georgia. Earlier in the year, Greene had a Pennsylvania Sergeant executed to head off a mutiny stemming from the problems with which this letter is concerned.

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