The Providence Journal, And Town And Country Advertiser

Extract of a letter from an officer in the Western army, to his friend in Springfield, Massachusetts, dated Wilkinsonville, August 24, 1801.

"It is with deep regret I have the disagreeable task to inform you of the death of our beloved Colonel Commandant, D. Strong. I dined with him two days before his death, when he enjoyed himself very well. After dinner he rode out; was taken ill about 9 o'clock in the evening. The next morning he was quite composed, and made some arrangements which his duty required; but in the evening was a little deranged. The next morning lost his speech, and departed this life without a struggle or groan. He was buried with military honours. Our situation is very distressing and alarming; we have two hundred and thirty-two men now on the sick report. I have lost seven of my best men by death on this ground; have 32 now sick: one has deceased this morning since I sat down to write. We shall leave this place in two or three days, and move, I hope, for a more healthy one on the Cumberland, or the Tennessee."