细节
TAYLOR, ZACHARY, President. Autograph letter signed ("Z. Taylor Lt Col") and with initialled postscript to Brigadier General Gene D. Parker, Adjutant Inspector General, Louisville, Kentucky, 25 September 1819. 2 1/2 pages, 4to, 235 x 195mm. (9 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.), leaf one is partially detached at fold from leaf two, small seal hole affecting one word of postscript, part of original red wax seal intact, integral address leaf in Taylor's hand, marked "Free" in another hand.
Taylor responds to an order with his own suggestions on recruitment and reports on his handling of deserters: "Your letter... arrangeing me as Lt Col to the 8th has been duly received, as well as the order for me to turn over to Maj Larrabee the superintendence of the recruiting service of the 3d Inf[antr]y... As there is only two officers [sic] on the recruiting service... west of the mountains, & not more than five all together I had thought it for the interest of the service, that the two... in this state... should be continued... at their present stations untill... spring, as it is now too late in the season for them to reach the Headquarters of the Reg[imen]t before the navigation of the Lakes are obstructed by ice...
P.S. Several deserters belonging to different Regiments ha[ve] been apprehended by the officers on the recruiting service in this state, & as there is no opportunity of sending them to the Reg[imen]ts or Corps they deserted from I have directed... them to be sent... [to the] frontier garrisons where they could be tried & punished..."
Taylor responds to an order with his own suggestions on recruitment and reports on his handling of deserters: "Your letter... arrangeing me as Lt Col to the 8th has been duly received, as well as the order for me to turn over to Maj Larrabee the superintendence of the recruiting service of the 3d Inf[antr]y... As there is only two officers [sic] on the recruiting service... west of the mountains, & not more than five all together I had thought it for the interest of the service, that the two... in this state... should be continued... at their present stations untill... spring, as it is now too late in the season for them to reach the Headquarters of the Reg[imen]t before the navigation of the Lakes are obstructed by ice...
P.S. Several deserters belonging to different Regiments ha[ve] been apprehended by the officers on the recruiting service in this state, & as there is no opportunity of sending them to the Reg[imen]ts or Corps they deserted from I have directed... them to be sent... [to the] frontier garrisons where they could be tried & punished..."