Letter signed : Head Quarters, New Windsor, to Major General McDougall at West Point, 1779 July 4.

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Letter signed : Head Quarters, New Windsor, to Major General McDougall at West Point, 1779 July 4.

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Asking him to discharge thirteen pieces of cannon in honor of "the anniversary of independence," and saying, "I wish we had it in our power to distribute a portion of rum to the soldiers, to exhilerate their spirits upon the occasion; but unfortunately our stock is too scanty to permit."

1 item (1 p.); 31.7 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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