RULING ON PAYMENT FOR A SUPPLIER OF LOGS FOR FORT MCHENRY,; as recorded in a secretarial autograph document, signed by Kersey as commander at the fort and two of his junior officers, Lt. J. Freemer and Capt. J. Wade, at Fort McHenry, 22 September 1798.
Folio. (2) pp. Folded; separated along a horizontal fold, else very good. When the Spanish abandoned their outpost, Fort Nogales, near present day Vicksburg, a group of soldiers from the 3rd Regiment of the U.S. Army occupied it, renaming the post Fort McHenry, in honor of the Secretary of War..... More