Letter from Brigadier General Ferdinand L. Claiborne at Mount Vernon in the Mississippi Territory, to U.S. Brigadier General Thomas Flournoy.

In the letter Claiborne reports on recent troop movements and an upcoming meeting with the Choctaw leader Pushmataha, and he expresses his desire "to be actively employed should you march into the Enemy's Country." Claiborne was commander of the Mississippi Territorial Militia and was...

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