GREENE, Nathanael. Letter signed (“Nath Greene”), as Quartermaster General, to Nehemiah Hubbard (1721-1814), Morristown, 11 April 1781. 2 pages, folio, blank integral leaf, address panel; seal hole catching portions of two words; paper loss to blank integral leaf.
GREENE, Nathanael. Letter signed (“Nath Greene”), as Quartermaster General, to Nehemiah Hubbard (1721-1814), Morristown, 11 April 1781. 2 pages, folio, blank integral leaf, address panel; seal hole catching portions of two words; paper loss to blank integral leaf. “THE PUBLIC BUSINESS MAY SUFFER VERY MUCH” : GREENE DEALS WITH POLITICAL AND SUPPLY PROBLEMS AFTER THE HARD MORRISTOWN ENCAMPMENT , taking up several important issues with prominent Middletown merchant, Hubbard: “You…ask whether you are to provide for the Militia, when they are not called by Congress or the Commander in Chief. You are not… I wish you to sink the boats in the ponds you propose, as I like the measure…” But politics intrudes as he acknowledges an earlier letter “an act of your State for appointing a Committee to enquire into the conduct of the staff of the Quarter Master General’s department,” and a summons to Hubbard to attend that committee. Greene tells Hubbard to “give them every satisfaction in your power…tho’ the public business may suffer very much…” Greene had enemies trying to undermine his command: Thomas Mifflin, whom he replaced as QMG, and Mifflin’s crony, Timothy Pickering. Both were stirring up discontent in Congress over Greene’s methods, and when Congress adopted a plan of reorganization, Greene demanded a vote of confidence, which Congress refused to supply, leading to his resignation. Greene’s enemies pressed their attack urging that he be stripped of his commission and booted out of the Army altogether. This they would not do, and Washington—with a better sense of Greene’s worth—tapped him later that year to head the Southern command. At King’s Mountain, Cowpens and Guilford Courthouse, Greene won victories that led to the defeat and surrender of British forces at Yorktown, and the winning of American independence. Nehemiah Hubbard served as Deputy Quartermaster for Middletown during the war, and in this letter Greene also addresses Hubbard’s request to resign that post.
GREENE, Nathanael. Letter signed (“Nath Greene”), as Quartermaster General, to Nehemiah Hubbard (1721-1814), Morristown, 11 April 1781. 2 pages, folio, blank integral leaf, address panel; seal hole catching portions of two words; paper loss to blank integral leaf.
GREENE, Nathanael. Letter signed (“Nath Greene”), as Quartermaster General, to Nehemiah Hubbard (1721-1814), Morristown, 11 April 1781. 2 pages, folio, blank integral leaf, address panel; seal hole catching portions of two words; paper loss to blank integral leaf. “THE PUBLIC BUSINESS MAY SUFFER VERY MUCH” : GREENE DEALS WITH POLITICAL AND SUPPLY PROBLEMS AFTER THE HARD MORRISTOWN ENCAMPMENT , taking up several important issues with prominent Middletown merchant, Hubbard: “You…ask whether you are to provide for the Militia, when they are not called by Congress or the Commander in Chief. You are not… I wish you to sink the boats in the ponds you propose, as I like the measure…” But politics intrudes as he acknowledges an earlier letter “an act of your State for appointing a Committee to enquire into the conduct of the staff of the Quarter Master General’s department,” and a summons to Hubbard to attend that committee. Greene tells Hubbard to “give them every satisfaction in your power…tho’ the public business may suffer very much…” Greene had enemies trying to undermine his command: Thomas Mifflin, whom he replaced as QMG, and Mifflin’s crony, Timothy Pickering. Both were stirring up discontent in Congress over Greene’s methods, and when Congress adopted a plan of reorganization, Greene demanded a vote of confidence, which Congress refused to supply, leading to his resignation. Greene’s enemies pressed their attack urging that he be stripped of his commission and booted out of the Army altogether. This they would not do, and Washington—with a better sense of Greene’s worth—tapped him later that year to head the Southern command. At King’s Mountain, Cowpens and Guilford Courthouse, Greene won victories that led to the defeat and surrender of British forces at Yorktown, and the winning of American independence. Nehemiah Hubbard served as Deputy Quartermaster for Middletown during the war, and in this letter Greene also addresses Hubbard’s request to resign that post.
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