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Alexandria Gazette, Commercial And Political
Alexandria, Virginia
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Extracts from a letter by a young man in the army near Piqua, dated Sept. 20, 1812, report Detroit as the target of an impending attack and decry the abysmal management of military departments, especially supplies, foreseeing more losses from starvation than battle.
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Extracts of letters from a young man in the army, dated near
"Piqua, Sept. 20, 1812.
"It is pretty well ascertained that Detroit is the immediate object of our attack." "Every department, with which we have any thing to do, is most abominably managed. I fear nothing so much as being obliged to run a foot race to get an ear of corn, or of dying for want of it—a death, which a man of my appetite would dread above all others."
"The commissary's, the paymasters and quartermaster's departments are so miserably arranged, that it is my candid opinion that more men will be lost, this campaign, for want of provision and other necessaries, than will perish by the sword."
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Piqua
Event Date
Sept. 20, 1812
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opinion that more men will be lost for want of provision and other necessaries than will perish by the sword
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Extracts of letters from a young man in the army stating that Detroit is the immediate object of attack and complaining about the abominable management of every department, especially fearing death from lack of corn due to poor supply arrangements in the commissary's, paymasters, and quartermaster's departments