- unitid
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{"value"=>"279915", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 20005", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"Feb. 4, 1779", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1779-02-04"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to Maj. Gen. [Benjamin] Lincoln"}
- physdesc
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{"value"=>"A. L. S. Endorsed. 2 pp. 4o", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Orders received too late for the men to march, their clothes being wet; will get them off early in the morning and will then proceed to confer with Gens. [Samuel] Elbert and [Andrew] Williamson; agrees with Lincoln as to the present plan, the British troops, like a snowball, collecting all the lukewarm and disaffected in the Carolinas, and if they reached Camden no sufficient opposing force could be raised; is ignorant of the geography of these parts; lack of wagons will prevent his taking provisions, asks for money or directions to procure it, enquires as to taking ammunition."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Ashe, John (Camp, Georgia)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1779
- date_inclusive_end
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1779
- keydate
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1779-02-04
- date_start
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1779-02-04
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1779-02-04