Wilmington Letters for the years 1781 thru 1817

12 Letters written from the place Wilmington to 7 people including Henry Clinton, and George Germain. Most letters from Wilmington were written in the year 1781. Several other letters were written in 1813 and 1817.

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  • Charles Cornwallis letter to Henry Clinton.

    Wilmington, NC - 10 April 1781

    I am very anxious to receive your Excellency's commands, being as yet totally in the dark as to the intended operations of the summer.

  • Charles Cornwallis letter to Recipient First Phillips.

    Wilmington, NC - 10 April 1781

    I have had a most difficult and dangerous campaign and was obliged to fight a battle 200 miles from any communication, against an enemy seven times my number.

  • Charles Cornwallis letter to Charles Cornwall.

    Wilmington, NC - 18 April 1781

    Sir, that you will be pleased to inform the House that I am truly sensible of the high honour conferred upon me

  • Charles Cornwallis letter to George Germain.

    Wilmington, NC - 18 April 1781

    I feel myself much indebted to your Lordship for your kind assistance in procuring the rank of major for my aide-de-camp Major Ross.

  • Charles Cornwallis letter to George Germain.

    Wilmington, NC - 18 April 1781

    I marched from Guilford in the morning of the 18th of March, and next day arrived at Bell's Mill, where I gave the troops two days rest, and procured a small supply of provisions.

  • Charles Cornwallis letter to Thomas Townshend.

    Wilmington, NC - 21 April 1781

    I have received your very kind letter, and am sensible of the obliging part you took in the debate in which I was concerned.

  • Charles Cornwallis letter to Alexander Webster.

    Wilmington, NC - 23 April 1781

    It gives me great concern to undertake a task which is not only a bitter renewal of my own grief, but must be a violent shock to an affectionate parent.

  • Charles Cornwallis letter to Henry Clinton.

    Wilmington, NC - 23 April 1781

    I have experienced the dangers and distresses of marching some hundreds of miles in a country chiefly hostile, without one active or useful friend, without intelligence, and without communication

  • Charles Cornwallis letter to George Germain.

    Wilmington, NC - 23 April 1781

    This express likewise brought me the disagreeable accounts that the upper posts of South Carolina were in the most imminent danger from an alarming spirit of revolt among many of the people

  • Charles Cornwallis letter to Henry Clinton.

    Wilmington, NC - 24 April 1781

    I have reflected very seriously on the subject of my attempt to march into Virginia, and have in consequence written a letter to Major-General Phillips

  • Albert Gallatin letter to James Monroe.

    Wilmington, NC - 8 May 1813

    I apprehend that you have misunderstood my meaning on the subject of an informal arrangement respecting impressments.

  • John Calhoun letter to James Monroe.

    Wilmington, SC - 1 November 1817

    I am impressed with the importance of the trust which you have tendered to me