This Day in History: April 10

When I was in Annapolis you were kind enough to promise me fifty stand of arms...I shall be able, I am in hopes, to get thirty or forty blankets, and hope you will spare me as many as you can. I am very anxious to get to my station. Pots and camp-kettles please to send me at the same time; hats you also promised me; and cloth, if you have any to spare, as many of my people are very bare of clothes, and begin to grumble about not having them. In our present situation, it is impossible to keep the company all together...