Horatio Gates (ca. 1728-1806) Letter Book, MfP.69

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Horatio Gates (ca. 1728-1806) Letter Book, MfP.69

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Title
Horatio Gates (ca. 1728-1806) Letter Book
Call Number
MfP.69
Creator
Unknown
Date
1780-1781
Repository
State Archives of North Carolina

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    Collection Overview

    Letter book of General Gates, July 21, 1780-Oct. 7, 1781, concerned with his assuming command of the Southern Department from Gen. Benjamin Lincoln in July, the Battle of Camden (Aug. 16) and subsequent rout, deficiencies of the southern army, his replacement by Nathanael Greene in December, and his efforts to have an official inquiry conducted. Addressees include boards of war in Philadelphia and North Carolina; Congress; Generals Washington, Greene, Lincoln, Isaac Huger, Griffith Rutherford, Daniel Morgan, and William Caswell; Gov. Abner Nash and governors of Virginia and Maryland; and Peter Mallett, Martin Armstrong, William Blount, Thomas Polk, Robert Rowan, Benjamin Cleveland, and the officer in charge of Kings Mountain prisoners. Original letter book is in the New York Public Library. See also P.C. 196.

    Contents of the Collection

    Subject Headings

  1. Gates, Horatio
  2. Rutherford, Griffith
  3. Lincoln, Benjamin
  4. Greene, Nathanael
  5. Huger, Isaac
  6. Morgan, Daniel
  7. Caswell, William
  8. Nash, Abner
  9. Mallett, Peter
  10. Armstrong, Martin
  11. Blount, William
  12. Polk, Thomas
  13. Rowan, Robert
  14. Cleveland, Benjamin
  15. Continental Line
  16. United States. Continental Navy Officers
  17. United States. Continental Army. Southern Dept.
  18. Generals
  19. Command of troops
  20. Battle of Camden, Camden, S.C., 1780
  21. Governors
  22. Prisoners of war
  23. Battle of King's Mountain, S.C., 1780
  24. Boards
  25. War
  26. Appointments, Military
  27. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
  28. Philadelphia (Pa.)
  29. Virginia
  30. Maryland