This Day in History: December 10

Your Excellency will, I presume, have received before this reaches you, an Act of Congress of the 4th of last Month, calling on the several States, for specific Quantities of fish and Salt Provision - Flour, Salt, and Rum for the Army, and directing all the above articles, except the fresh meat, to be collected and deposited at such places in each of the States, as should be judged most convenient by me. This communication I should have done myself the honor of making somewhat earlier, had not the greater part of my time, since the receipt of the Act, been taken up in arranging & visiting the Hospitals, and Winter Cantonments of the Army. [More]