[Letter] 1842 Mar. 20, Camden County, Georgia to Charles J. McDonald, Governor of Georgia, Milledgeville, G[eorgi]a / [Captain] Aaron Jernigan

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Camden County Georgia

20th March 1842

Sir
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of yours of the 9th instant which come to hand on the evening of the 17th inst. [instant] with directions to raise a detachment of thirty men. and that you had directed Major Genl [General] Knight to order out a detachment of thirty men and to place them under the command of either Captain Morgan or Captain Johnson,, and I would assume the Command and so dispose the entire force So as to effect the most efficient protection to the Country, in reply to which I have to inform your Excellency that your order to me will be promptly attended to and that I raised and organized the detachment as follows one Lieutenant two Sergeants two Corporals twenty Six privates. as I thought it most prudent to have a Lieut to the detachment that I raised as the two detachments is about Sufficient to complete one company,, and that the two [deleted text: [illegible text] ] detachments would require the Same number of officers as what one full company would, You will please inform me at the earliest date what way I will proceed to obtain forage and Subsitence [Subsistence] for the men and horses that is ordered into Service as it is not to be obtained in this district or a quantity [added text: not ] more then [than] will furnish


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them for two or three weeks, I will take the field on tusday [tuesday] next the 22nd inst [instant] with the Small force placed under my Command, I hope in a Short time that your Excellency will order out [added text: a ] additional force Sufficient to complete two full Companies and [added text: have ] them placed under the Command of a competent officer as I think that number of men under the command of a competent officer would be Sufficient to keep the Georgia frontier clear from Indian depredations

I have the honor to be your Obt Servt [Obedient Servant]
[Signed] Aaron Jernian
His Excellency Charles J McDonald Governor of Georgia





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Centrevillage Ga C.C. [Camden County]

March 22nd 1842} 10 3/4

His Excellency C. [Charles] J. McDonald Governor of Georgia Milledge ville Ga

Aaron Jernigan

1842

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