GREENE, Nathanael (1742-1786), General. Letter signed (“Nath Greene”), to Col. Ephraim Bowen (1753-1841), Camp Fredericksburg, 29 October 1778. 2 pages, folio, recipient's docket on blank, integral leaf.
GREENE, Nathanael (1742-1786), General. Letter signed (“Nath Greene”), to Col. Ephraim Bowen (1753-1841), Camp Fredericksburg, 29 October 1778. 2 pages, folio, recipient's docket on blank, integral leaf. ONE YEAR AFTER THE DISASTROUS VALLEY FORGE ENCAMPMENT , the Army was in much better shape with Nathanael Greene as Quartermaster General. Here he tells Bowen, “I have sent you 88,000 doll[ar]s by Mr Whitehead which I wish safe to hand. Out of this you will repay the money borrowed of Genl. Sullivan from the Military Chest. If I recollect right the sum was 50,000 dolls.” He reports that he has instructed “Mr. Nehemiah Hubbard DQM Genl of Connecticut to find you 60 Portmanteaus & 40 valises for such of the officers of Genl Glovers & Genl. Varnum’s Brigades as are in want.” These deliveries were dependent on Congress approving the funding. Greene asks Bowen to “make a charge for all that are delivered against each respective Officer and take a receipt for the delivery and insert in the body of the Receipt a promise to pay to the value of the thing received…” Historian Mark Boatner calls Greene “the American who emerged from the Revolution with a military reputation second only to Washington’s.” He certainly won Washington’s confidence early in the war, fighting alongside the commander-in-chief at Boston and New York. He took over the Quarter Master post during the Valley Forge winter, but on the condition that he still command in the field, which he did at Monmouth and Newport before relinquishing the quartermaster post in exasperation because of political intrigues among his Congressional enemies. He replaced Arnold as commander at West Point and most famously, supervised the brilliant Southern campaigns of 1780-81.
GREENE, Nathanael (1742-1786), General. Letter signed (“Nath Greene”), to Col. Ephraim Bowen (1753-1841), Camp Fredericksburg, 29 October 1778. 2 pages, folio, recipient's docket on blank, integral leaf.
GREENE, Nathanael (1742-1786), General. Letter signed (“Nath Greene”), to Col. Ephraim Bowen (1753-1841), Camp Fredericksburg, 29 October 1778. 2 pages, folio, recipient's docket on blank, integral leaf. ONE YEAR AFTER THE DISASTROUS VALLEY FORGE ENCAMPMENT , the Army was in much better shape with Nathanael Greene as Quartermaster General. Here he tells Bowen, “I have sent you 88,000 doll[ar]s by Mr Whitehead which I wish safe to hand. Out of this you will repay the money borrowed of Genl. Sullivan from the Military Chest. If I recollect right the sum was 50,000 dolls.” He reports that he has instructed “Mr. Nehemiah Hubbard DQM Genl of Connecticut to find you 60 Portmanteaus & 40 valises for such of the officers of Genl Glovers & Genl. Varnum’s Brigades as are in want.” These deliveries were dependent on Congress approving the funding. Greene asks Bowen to “make a charge for all that are delivered against each respective Officer and take a receipt for the delivery and insert in the body of the Receipt a promise to pay to the value of the thing received…” Historian Mark Boatner calls Greene “the American who emerged from the Revolution with a military reputation second only to Washington’s.” He certainly won Washington’s confidence early in the war, fighting alongside the commander-in-chief at Boston and New York. He took over the Quarter Master post during the Valley Forge winter, but on the condition that he still command in the field, which he did at Monmouth and Newport before relinquishing the quartermaster post in exasperation because of political intrigues among his Congressional enemies. He replaced Arnold as commander at West Point and most famously, supervised the brilliant Southern campaigns of 1780-81.
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