Tench Tilghman A.L.S., Head Quarters Valley Forge, 29th April 1778 : to Col. [Stephan] Moylan, [S.l.]
1778
MSS L1977.164.5 M
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Title
Tench Tilghman A.L.S., Head Quarters Valley Forge, 29th April 1778 : to Col. [Stephan] Moylan, [S.l.]
Published
Valley Forge, [Pa.], 1778
Description
[2] p. ; 34 cm. (fol.)
Call Number
MSS L1977.164.5 M
Note
Washington as author surmised from signature and content of letter.
"I am as much at a loss as you can possibly be how to procure arms for the cavalry. There are 107 carbines in camp, but no swords or pistols of any consequence." Tilghman was an aide-de-camp to General George Washington.
"Gen.l Knox informs me, that the 1100 carbines which came in to the eastward, and were said to be fit for horsemen, were only a lighter kind of musket."
"I believe Cols. Baylor and Bland have procured swords from Hunters manufactory in Virginia, but I do not think it will be possible to get a sufficient number of pistols, except they are imported .... I long ago urged to Congress the necessity of importing a large quantity of horse accoutrements from France, but whether the order was ever given, or whether they have miscarried in the passage I do not know."
"I suppose the horses purchased by Governor Livingston's order in Jersey will be immediately delivered to the different regiments."
"Necessity will oblige us to bring [horses] into the field very raw, as I look upon it too late to think of engaging the Connecticut Militia horse, neither do I think the number you mention could be procured."
"If the enemy wait for reinforcements, it will probably be a considerable time before the campaign grows active and fatiguing, and if the officers are attentive, great progress may be made in training while the duty is easy."
The Fredericksburg Gunnery and Hunter’s Iron Works were considered vital enterprises to the Revolution and these factories supplied numerous Virginia troops. Darter. Colonial Fredericksburg and neighborhood in perspective, p. 104.
Tighlman was an original member of the Maryland Society of the Cincinnati; Moylan, of the Pennsylvania Society.
Watermark: Rampant lion with arrows encircled by Pro Patria motto
Gift of Evelyn Lansdale Wildman and Clare Lansdale Johnston, through the agency of their father, Philip Moylan Lansdale, a member of the Maryland Society of the Cincinnati
"I am as much at a loss as you can possibly be how to procure arms for the cavalry. There are 107 carbines in camp, but no swords or pistols of any consequence." Tilghman was an aide-de-camp to General George Washington.
"Gen.l Knox informs me, that the 1100 carbines which came in to the eastward, and were said to be fit for horsemen, were only a lighter kind of musket."
"I believe Cols. Baylor and Bland have procured swords from Hunters manufactory in Virginia, but I do not think it will be possible to get a sufficient number of pistols, except they are imported .... I long ago urged to Congress the necessity of importing a large quantity of horse accoutrements from France, but whether the order was ever given, or whether they have miscarried in the passage I do not know."
"I suppose the horses purchased by Governor Livingston's order in Jersey will be immediately delivered to the different regiments."
"Necessity will oblige us to bring [horses] into the field very raw, as I look upon it too late to think of engaging the Connecticut Militia horse, neither do I think the number you mention could be procured."
"If the enemy wait for reinforcements, it will probably be a considerable time before the campaign grows active and fatiguing, and if the officers are attentive, great progress may be made in training while the duty is easy."
The Fredericksburg Gunnery and Hunter’s Iron Works were considered vital enterprises to the Revolution and these factories supplied numerous Virginia troops. Darter. Colonial Fredericksburg and neighborhood in perspective, p. 104.
Tighlman was an original member of the Maryland Society of the Cincinnati; Moylan, of the Pennsylvania Society.
Watermark: Rampant lion with arrows encircled by Pro Patria motto
Gift of Evelyn Lansdale Wildman and Clare Lansdale Johnston, through the agency of their father, Philip Moylan Lansdale, a member of the Maryland Society of the Cincinnati
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