Letter and clipping, 1810-1814.

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Letter and clipping, 1810-1814.

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Letter to Congressman Thomas Newton, Washington, D.C. Wilkinson notes that he has been informed that Newton would chair the committee in Congress to investigate "Mortality, among troops on the Mississippi . . ." He expresses his willingness to cooperate. Also included is a 3 Jan. 1814 clipping from a Trenton, N.J. newspaper regarding Wilkinson in the War of 1812.

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