(YORKTOWN CAMPAIGN) DAVIES WILLIAM Pair of Autograph Letters

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(YORKTOWN CAMPAIGN.) DAVIES, WILLIAM. Pair of Autograph Letters Signed, as Virginia's Commissioner of War, to Brigadier General George Weedon, asking for information of arms for the militia and prohibiting the impressment of cavalry supplies from the public. 2 and 3 pages, tall folio; minimal wear. War Office [Richmond, VA?], 3 and 21 August 1781

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Davies complains in the earlier letter that he is "at a loss to devise what has become of all the arms that from time to time are brought into the state." He also requests a report on the "factory for arms" in Fredericksburg. The second letter expresses approval of Weedon's plan for the defense of the northern neck east of Fredericksburg. Davies also orders that "not a single article of cavalry belonging to the public should upon any pretence be taken. . . as the country groans under the abuses which the want of regularity and the licentiousness of men in arms have introduced." Quoted in Ward, Duty, Honor or Country, page 210.