This Day in History: April 7

Being informed by Major Burnet that the arrangement of the several Lines of the Southern States had not been made agreable to my order on that head, I have enclosed a Copy of all that have come to my hand, or that I have been able to procure. The distraction that has prevailed in these States, the great number of Officers belonging to the several Lines in captivity, and the great extent of Country over which the rest were spread, together with the little prospect of filling up the Lines, have been some of the difficulties which have retarded and perplexed the business. I have been unwearied in my endeavors to get it done, but without full effect in any, and very defective in several. [More]