GREENE, Nathanael (1742-1786), Major General, Contintental Army . Autograph letter signed ("Nath Greene M. General") to New York Governor George Clinton (1739-1812), "Head Quarters West Point," 9 October 1780. 2 pages, folio, neatly inlaid, in very fine condition. GREENE DESCRIBES THE SITUATION AT WEST POINT FOLLOWING "ARNOLD'S LATE SHAMEFUL AND TREASONABLE CONDUCT" An important letter, written from West Point less than two weeks after the capture of Major John André and the discovery of Arnold's treason after his precipitate flight from the West Point headquarters. André had been executed at Tappan, after a brief hearing before a military tribunal. Greene had been placed in command of the Hudson Highlands in Arnold's stead and found it necessary, in the words of D.S. Freeman, to correct "mistakes deliberately made to expose the American stronghold to successful attack...Arnold had been careful to be careless." Here, Greene appeals to New York's governor for aid: "I am ordered here by the Commander in Chief with four brigades to garrison this place. I got into garrison late last evening; and am sorry to find a place of such great importance is in such a miserable situation. The condition of the works and the knowledge the enemy has of them from Arnold's late shameful and treasonable conduct make it necessary that every exertion should be made to compleat them and I have it in charge from the commander in chief to leave nothing unattempted to accomplish it." "Tho the force I command is but small, and tho the works are in a bad condition; yet if the garrison is but furnished with provision, wood, and forage, I have nothing to fear from the enemy; being persuaded, the di[s]cipline and bravery of the troops, will make up for the smallness of their numbers and the defects in the fortifications..." Shortages of rations, firewood and forage, he explains, "leave me little to hope without the helping hand of government. I therefore take the earliest opportunity to make your Excellency acquainted with the situation of the garrison." He requests a meeting with Clinton, for "much is to be done; and but little time to do it in..." Greene would have little time to improve the fortifications at West Point; two days before this letter was written, Congress named him, at Washington's suggestion, to command the troubled Southern Department. Greene went South in December, where he found shortages and difficulties equal or greater than those he here deplores at West Point.
GREENE, Nathanael (1742-1786), Major General, Contintental Army . Autograph letter signed ("Nath Greene M. General") to New York Governor George Clinton (1739-1812), "Head Quarters West Point," 9 October 1780. 2 pages, folio, neatly inlaid, in very fine condition. GREENE DESCRIBES THE SITUATION AT WEST POINT FOLLOWING "ARNOLD'S LATE SHAMEFUL AND TREASONABLE CONDUCT" An important letter, written from West Point less than two weeks after the capture of Major John André and the discovery of Arnold's treason after his precipitate flight from the West Point headquarters. André had been executed at Tappan, after a brief hearing before a military tribunal. Greene had been placed in command of the Hudson Highlands in Arnold's stead and found it necessary, in the words of D.S. Freeman, to correct "mistakes deliberately made to expose the American stronghold to successful attack...Arnold had been careful to be careless." Here, Greene appeals to New York's governor for aid: "I am ordered here by the Commander in Chief with four brigades to garrison this place. I got into garrison late last evening; and am sorry to find a place of such great importance is in such a miserable situation. The condition of the works and the knowledge the enemy has of them from Arnold's late shameful and treasonable conduct make it necessary that every exertion should be made to compleat them and I have it in charge from the commander in chief to leave nothing unattempted to accomplish it." "Tho the force I command is but small, and tho the works are in a bad condition; yet if the garrison is but furnished with provision, wood, and forage, I have nothing to fear from the enemy; being persuaded, the di[s]cipline and bravery of the troops, will make up for the smallness of their numbers and the defects in the fortifications..." Shortages of rations, firewood and forage, he explains, "leave me little to hope without the helping hand of government. I therefore take the earliest opportunity to make your Excellency acquainted with the situation of the garrison." He requests a meeting with Clinton, for "much is to be done; and but little time to do it in..." Greene would have little time to improve the fortifications at West Point; two days before this letter was written, Congress named him, at Washington's suggestion, to command the troubled Southern Department. Greene went South in December, where he found shortages and difficulties equal or greater than those he here deplores at West Point.
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