Henry Shepard letter to F. Walker, 1824.

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Henry Shepard letter to F. Walker, 1824.

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This collection consists of one letter from Lieutenant Henry Shepard to Hon. F. Walker, Esq. of the War Office in Washington, D.C, from Sandersville, Georgia on March 17, 1824. Shepard requests advice on the injustice of the government in not paying the soldiers that marched with Captain Obed Wright on the Chehaw Expedition in Lee County, Georgia in April 1818. He further explains that the refusal by any of these soldiers to disobey orders from a superior officer would have been considered mutiny.

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Wright, Obed

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Walker, F.

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Shepard, Henry.

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Henry Shepard, was a Lieutenant under Captain Daniel Childs in the Georgia militia from Wilkinson County. After the Chehaw Expedition of 1818 was carried out, Shepard learned that General Glaperek(?) gave the orders for Major Alston not to pay the soldiers who marched under the orders of Captain Wright, but to pay those who remained behind at Fort Dean during the expedition. The Chehaw Expedition refers to the event on April 23, 1818 when Captain Wright ordered the Georgia militia under his comm...